After 17 years as a corporate and securities attorney, Derek Willis suddenly found himself responsible for managing a contentious piece of litigation as the secretary and general counsel for Volusion Inc., an Austin-based software company.
Willis, now 48, said that litigation was a new area of law for him when he moved from the Austin office of Wilson Sonsoni Goodrich & Rosati, where he had been a partner, to join Volusion in October 2012. A 1995 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, Willis also had handled corporate and securities and mergers and acquisitions matters during the five years he spent as an associate at Gardere Wynne Sewell. But the job at Volusion thrust him into the world of litigation.
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