Author Archives: Nicholas Phillips

Erika Schenk

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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Meredith Perkins

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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Nick Kriegel

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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Ryan Fehlig

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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Monica J. Allen

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 ...

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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. ...

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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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