When Robin Smith, 47, a psychology and theater major at Wesleyan, was applying to law school, a friend told her to look into a promising legal specialty known as “IP.” Smith wasn’t sure what that was, so she looked it up in the library and realized there was a creative aspect to that type of law. After graduation, she cut her teeth during six years at the Connecticut law firm of Day, Berry & Howard. Eventually she took her IP knowledge in-house at a truly creative company—Enfield, Connecticut-based LEGO Systems Inc.
Smith, who says she played with Lego bricks until she was 12 or 13 and still has the set she got for her ninth birthday, joined the legal team as deputy general counsel and corporate secretary focusing on IP. After nine years, she rose to become vice president and general counsel for the Americas. Now, she works to protect the Lego brand, foster creativity in her staff and ensure that, as they say in “The Lego Movie”—“everything is awesome.”
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