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The DuPont Women Lawyers’ Network (DWLN) announced that Jacquelyn E. Stone, a partner in the Richmond office of McGuireWoods LLP, was chosen to receive its annual Themis Award for 2005
DuPont Legal honored the 2004 Challenge Award winners from its Network of Primary Law Firms and Legal Service Providers.
An interview by the Editor of Metropolitan Corporate Counsel with Julie Mazza, Manager of Law Firm Partnering, Corporate Counsel and Six Sigma Black Belt, DuPont Legal. She discusses how DuPont’s Legal Department measures the performance of the Primary Law Firms and Service Providers in the DuPont Network with its annual Benchmark Survey. During the interview, Mazza details the diversity efforts of many of the firms and suppliers and how pleased she is with their depth of commitment.
An interview by the Editor of Metropolitan Corporate Counsel with Joshua W. Martin III and Kathleen Furey McDonough, partners in the Delaware law firm of Potter Anderson & Corroon. Mr. Martin, who has had vast experience as a business leader, practicing attorney, judge and state agency official described his reasons for choosing the law firm of Potter Anderson because it has a high-profile, quality practice that is committed to diversity and the inclusion of lawyers. Ms. McDonough discussed some of the diversity initiatives of the firm, including its role in the annual DuPont Minority Job Fair and other benefits to the firm for being a member of the DuPont Primary Law Firm Network.
In his column for Inside Litigation, Tom Sager, DuPont Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, discusses what corporate legal departments can do to steam the tide of juries and judges believing that corporations tend to hide information until they are forced to tell the truth by the government or litigation. Mr. Sager explains how the sins of Enron, Worldcom and other like transgressors have changed the way juries and judges view corporations and the negative impact this is having on corporations in courtrooms.
