Empowering Lawyers To Meet Governance, Compliance Challenges The Editor interviews Thomas C. Baxter, President, Greater New York Chapter, Association of Corporate Counsel - America, and Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Federal Reserve Bank of New York. (October 2004 Issue; Page[s] 53,54)
General Counsel Roundtable: Coping With Compliance Challenges In The Post-Scandal World The Moderator, Edgar H. Sims, Jr., Partner, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, raised the following questions with Andrew Hendry, Senior Vice-President, General Counsel and Secretary, Colgate-Palmolive Company; Ernest Patrikis, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, American International Group, Inc., Thomas Sabatino, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Schering-Plough Corporation, and Michael Shepherd, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, The Bank of New York. (October 2004 Issue; Page[s] 30,55,64,65)
Compliance Programs
In-House Counsel's Role In Tailoring Compliance Programs To Their
Companies' Needs The Editor interviews Charles F. Raeburn, Senior
Corporate Counsel, Pfizer Inc., and Jean K. FitzSimon, General
Counsel and Principal, Bridge Associates LLC. They will be panelists at the
program on Corporate Governance and Compliance Today and Tomorrow: What
Corporate Law Departments Need to Know to be held on January 27 in Livingston,
New Jersey. Sponsors are the New Jersey Corporate Counsel Association, Sills
Cummis Epstein & Gross P.C., Deloitte & Touche LLP, and associate
sponsors are PLI-Corpedia, Corporation Service Company (CSC) and Kelly Law
Institute. For more information about the program, contact Jennifer
Buneta at jbuneta@sillscummis.com. To read articles about
corporate governance in past issues of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, visit
www.metrocorpcounsel.com.
(January 2005 Issue; Page[s] 36)
Corporate Governance: Law And Practice - A "Must Have" Reference The Editor interviews Amy L. Goodman, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, and Bart Schwartz, Deputy General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. They are the general editors of Corporate Governance: Law and Practice, a two-volume guide recently published by LexisNexis Matthew Bender, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. (January 2005 Issue; Page[s] 42)
The Best Way To Handle Whistleblowing The Editor interviews David W. Garland, Co-Chair of the Employment and Labor Practice Group at Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross P.C. (January 2005 Issue; Page[s] 31)
Intellectual Property - A Key Asset Not To Be
Overlooked The Editor interviews Marc S. Friedman, Chair of
the Intellectual Property Group at Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross P.C. and
past president of the Computer Law Association.
(January 2005 Issue; Page[s] 32)
Project: Corporate Counsel - Corporate Counsel Corporate Counsel Tackle The Challenges Of Global Compliance The Editor is fortunate to report on a discussion with Gabe Shawn Varges, Chief Compliance Officer and Head of Corporate Responsibility, Zurich Financial Services, and Jane L. Wexton, Senior Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer and Counsel, GE Consumer Finance, who participated in the web program entitled Corporate Compliance Institute 2004 and recorded June, 2004 by the Practising Law Institute. For more information about the program Compliance Without Borders, visit www.pli.edu. The views here and in such program are expressed in a personal capacity and do not necessarily reflect those of their employers. (May 2005 Issue; Page[s] 45,72)
Peter G. Verniero: Bringing Multiple Talents To Corporate Investigations The Editor interviews Peter G. Verniero, Of Counsel, Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross P.C., co-chair of that firm's corporate investigations and business crimes practice group and chair of its appellate practice group, former associate justice, Supreme Court of New Jersey. (December 2004 Issue; Page[s] 01,68)
Legal Department and Corporate Secretarial Functions Compliance
Partnering With Law Departments To Meet Their Compliance Needs The Editor interviews Jennifer A. Kenton, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, CSC. Ms. Kenton has more than 18 years of corporate services industry experience and direct contact with top corporate and law firm customers. (December 2004 Issue; Page[s] 31)
Corprasoft's Streamlined Matter Management Solution The Editor interviews Carl Lee Sutherland, President and CEO of Corprasoft, Inc. He discusses Corprasoft Legal Desktop 8.0 - a high-performance scalable Web-based matter management system. (January 2005 Issue; Page[s] 38)
Saving Time, Cutting Costs And Achieving Litigation Objectives The Editor interviews George S. Noga, President and CEO of Syngence, LLC, a company headquartered in Texas, that provides linguistic searching and document abstracting technology for law firms and corporations involved in litigation. He can be reached a gnoga@syngence.com. (December 2004 Issue; Page[s] 43)
Navigating The Still Murky Post-Sarbanes-Oxley World: A Roadmap For Corporate Counsel The Editor interviews Arlene Elgart Mirsky, Member, Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross P.C., Co-Chair of the Firm's Corporate Governance and Compliance Practice Group and Member of its Corporate, Securities and Banking Department. [Editor's Note] Ms. Mirsky is both the Conference Co-Chair and Moderator of the Panel "Corporate Governance - Who's in Charge" at the January 27 Seminar "Corporate Governance and Compliance Today and Tomorrow - What Corporate Law Departments Need to Know" sponsored by the New Jersey Corporate Counsel Association in conjunction with Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross P.C. and Deloitte & Touche LLP. The purpose of this interview is to focus on the challenges facing corporate counsel in the post-Sarbanes-Oxley environment. (January 2005 Issue; Page[s] 30)
Corporate Counsel: Meeting Governance And Compliance Needs The Editor interviews R. William "Bill" Ide, Partner, McKenna Long and Aldridge LLP, past President, American Bar Association and a Member of its Task Force On Corporate Responsibility, former General Counsel, Monsanto Corporation, Fellow, Conference Board's Directors' Institute and Chair of the Panel Advisory Committee, Independent Fact-Finding Service of the American Arbitration Association. (September 2004 Issue; Page[s] 41,43,44)
Project: Corporate Counsel - Law Firms Avoiding Surprises In Today's Post-Enron Climate The Editor interviews David J. Sheehan, Chairman of Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, P.C. He is a trial attorney with over 30 years of experience in intellectual property matters and complex product liability cases, with a heavy emphasis in the pharmaceutical field. He can be reached at (212) 649-4701. (May 2005 Issue; Page[s] 40)
