WASHINGTON D.C. – The legal department of Verizon Communications Inc. was honored Sept. 22 with a Community Service Award, presented by the Washington Metropolitan Area Corporate Counsel Association at its 7th annual awards program at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C.
Under the leadership of General Counsel Randal Milch and Associate General Counsel John Frantz, Verizon has [...]
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Verizon honored for in-house pro bono
September 27th, 2011 · Comments Off · corporate counsel, pro bono
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Supreme Court asks for pro bono proposal for corporate counsel
May 28th, 2010 · Comments Off · Supreme Court of Virginia, VBA, Virginia State Bar, corporate counsel, pro bono
The Supreme Court of Virginia has asked the Virginia State Bar and the Virginia Bar Association to submit a proposed rule for pro bono practice by corporate counsel.
The request followed comments last month by Randal S. Milch, executive vice president and general counsel of Verizon Communications Inc., about “regulatory impediments” by the Virginia State Bar [...]
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New Web site lets in-house counsel rate outside firms
November 13th, 2009 · Comments Off · corporate counsel, in-house lawyers
Hoping to give in-house lawyers a powerful tool to assess outside legal help, the Association of Corporate Counsel has unveiled a Web site that grades law firms on how well they perform and whether they stay within budget.
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CEO can’t muzzle in-house lawyer
June 13th, 2008 · Comments Off · 4th Circuit, Attorney-Client Privilege, corporate counsel
An in-house lawyer’s warning that he represented the company, not its employees or CEO, meant the CEO could not use the attorney-client privilege to keep the lawyer from testifying before a federal grand jury.
In an unpublished decision June 11 in U.S. v. Investment Properties of America LLC, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld [...]
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Benchmarks for the board room: corporate counsel metrics
October 24th, 2007 · Comments Off · corporate counsel, in-house lawyers
“How’m I doing?” was former New York City Mayor Ed Koch’s trademark greeting to his constituents.
Lawyers may ask themselves the same question.
Lawyers who labor in a law firm often use the almighty billable hour as their primary measure of productivity.
But an attorney who works for a corporation may come at that billable-hour standard from the [...]
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