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Global Company Seeks Attorney to Manage IP Division

A global company headquartered in Houston seeks an attorney with 15-plus years of experience to manage its intellectual property division. This is a high-level position in the department and has supervisory responsibility for the IP group. Responsibilities include: Advising company business units on transactions relating to the creation, protection, ownership,...
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Career Moves

H&R Block Fills GC Position H&R Block Inc. appointed Carol Graebner as executive vice president and general counsel. Graebner most recently served as executive vice president and general counsel of Dynegy Inc. based in Houston. She succeeds Nicholas Spaeth, who left the company. NYSE Appoints New General Counsel The New...
3 minute read

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Are You Ready to Hire?

The hiring environment has been good to legal departments over the past two years and is about to get even better. According to the 2006 Altman Weil Law Department Metrics Benchmarking Survey, lawyer staffing in corporate law departments rose by 19 percent in 2005. The key measure--lawyers per billion dollars...
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Sweet Success

Melanie Hansen keeps her client happy by serving up a variety of legal services.
21 minute read

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Shaky Ground

Job confidence among legal professionals plunged in September, according to the Hudson Employment Index, which measures worker confidence in the employment market. The current statistics are the lowest on record for the legal field, as nearly all indices contributing to the index fell. "The only reason that we've come up...
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Fortune 500 Company Seeks Experienced SEC/Corporate Governance Attorney

Minneapolis-based Fortune 500 company seeks to add an experienced SEC/corporate governance attorney to its team. In this role you will be responsible for leading and administrating the corporate secretary function including significant work with the board of directors and SEC reporting. Ideal candidates will have five-plus years of sophisticated experience...
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Career Moves

PricewaterhouseCoopers Fills Global GC Position PricewaterhouseCoopers named Javier Rubinstein global general counsel. Rubinstein was formerly managing partner of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw's Chicago litigation practice. He has been with Mayer Brown since 1989. DaimlerChrysler Names New GC DaimlerChrysler AG named Gerd Becht general counsel. Becht succeeds William O'Brien, who...
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The InsideCounsel/Dickstein Shapiro Diversity Survey

Survey reveals GCs are failing to address diversity.
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Conservation Counsel

William McKeown finds his calling as the chief legal officer of the Bronx Zoo.
8 minute read

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Conservation Counsel

William McKeown finds his calling as the chief legal officer of the Bronx Zoo.
8 minute read

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