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This is the first time The National Law Journal has compiled a list of “The 20 Most Influential General Counsel.”
DuPont Legal has added the law firm of Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, L.C. to its roster of Primary Law Firms (PLFs) – the network of outside law firms with which the Company has a strategic partnership.
Bloomberg News ran an article about how U.S. companies, adopting a model used by DuPont Co., are adding firms with 300 or fewer lawyers to their outside-counsel roster and saving as much as half compared with fees of Wall Street firms more than triple that size.
P. Michael Walker, Vice President, Assistant General Counsel and Chief IP Counsel for the DuPont Company, was elected president of the Association of Corporate Patent Counsel (ACPC) at a recent association meeting.
The editor of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel interviews Thomas L. Sager, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, DuPont Company. Mr. Sager discusses issues of diversity in the legal profession and its role in the DuPont Legal Model. He also outlines the various “pipeline” initiatives DuPont Legal has supported to attract more inner city youth to professions in the legal field; the impact that the economic crisis may be having on diversity programs, and the growth of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA).