PRIVATE COMPANY WITH ANNUAL REVENUES OVER $500M General Counsel, Vice President of Compliance, World Wide Technology A big part of Erika Schenk’s job is making other people’s jobs easier. It’s true that as general counsel at World Wide Technology in ...
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PRIVATE COMPANY WITH ANNUAL REVENUES OVER $500M Vice President, Associate General Counsel, Enterprise Holdings Meredith Perkins is on a quest: Complete a half-marathon in all 50 states. Asked why she and her friends would strive to run 13 miles in so ...
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PRIVATE COMPANY WITH ANNUAL REVENUES OVER $500M Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Safety National Not every in-house counsel engages heavily in company operations, but at Safety National, Nick Kriegel does. Kriegel is general counsel for the company, a specialty ...
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PRIVATE COMPANY WITH ANNUAL REVENUES OVER $500M Assistant General Counsel, Bunzl Distribution NA Ryan Fehlig works on a lot of teams at Bunzl Distribution NA, where he is assistant general counsel, and he recently has overhauled his management style. “I used ...
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NONPROFIT/GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION Vice Chancellor and General Counsel, Washington University in St. Louis In the mid-1970s, when a teenager from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, named Monica J. Allen first set foot on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis, she had ...
Read More »Putting “Play Gloria” on pause? Bar claims IP rights to use of St. Louis Blues’ unofficial anthem
In April, the St. Louis startup Arch Apparel hit retail pay dirt with a new T-shirt. It bore the words “Play Gloria” — a reference to the late singer Laura Branigan’s 1982 pop hit that, improbably, became the St. Louis ...
Read More »Proposed federal rule could alter wage-and-hour litigation
The federal rule specifying which American employees must receive overtime pay for working more than forty hours a week hasn’t changed since 2004, but it might soon — and that change could affect wage-and-hour litigation, according to Missouri employment-law attorneys. ...
Read More »Cannabis counsel: On eve of legal medical marijuana, Missouri firms wade into water — or dive right in
The legal framework for medical marijuana in Missouri now is in place — and Shook Hardy & Bacon is one of the latest big law firms to offer help in navigating it. “This emerging industry is directly in our wheelhouse,” ...
Read More »Boot Camp Equips Students With Tools For Inside Careers
When University of Missouri Law School graduate Alyson Carrel first heard about a three-week legal “boot camp” to be held in Chicago in May, and its curriculum offering in-house training, she did not expect a big draw. “We weren’t sure ...
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