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| | | | | | | | 9-2008
Making An Investment
Conner Strong GC Heather Steinmiller Makes Time To Focus On Pro Bono
A day in the life of a general counsel can often be filled with daunting tasks — providing advice and counsel on legal and policy issues, anticipating and guarding against legal risks and acting as a compliance officer and sometimes even as a business adviser.
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| | | | | | | | 6-2008
Going Global
Are Multi-Nationals Becoming Another Money-Laundering Layer?
Before the recent scandal involving former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, whose funds transfers for his alleged illicit liaisons were reportedly red-flagged by the anti-money-laundering compliance program at his bank, few outside the financial services and banking community understood - or cared about — money laundering and AML compliance programs. Yet the risks posed by money far beyond the finance and banking industry.
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| | | | | | | | 3-2008
Where Have All the GCs Gone?
Reporting Changes Cause Reshuffling, Disappearance of Top-Ranked Pennsylvania GCs
When the time came to start putting together this year's GC Compensation Survey for public companies in Pennsylvania, we set about gathering the data in the usual way, researching the companies' Securities and Exchange Commission filings on executive compensation. What we found was that the SEC has changed the way that companies must report executive compensation — not only how compensation figures are reported, but also what is included in those figures — and the changes have shaken up our chart.
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| | | | | | | | 11-2007
Remote General Counsel
Off-site and Part-Time Attorneys Fill the General Counsel Seat
When Gregg Schor's employer was acquired by a larger public software company, he planned to take some time off. The acquiring company had a full law department and Schor figured that as general counsel of the acquired company he'd be one of the first to be let go anyway. But Schor didn't get the chance to relax.
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| | | | | | | | 1-2007
Fallen Star
The Newark Agreements
In the summer of 1967, police brutality, poverty and despair led Newark's Central Ward to erupt in racial violence. Six days of rioting left 23 people dead, 725 injured and the neighborhood in ruins. In an attempt to right decades of discrimination, federal, state and local officials negotiated a pact called the Newark Agreements.
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