This morning, I was fortunate enough to have breakfast with Jeff Carr, General Counsel of FMC Technologies; Peter Jenkins, the President of Law Partnering Institute and founder of the Law Department Consortium; and Steve Lauer, Director of Integrity Interactive. Jeff is one the most outspoken proponents of aligning the economic interests of clients and their counsel, and he can legitimately claim to be one of the prophets who have moved the industry in this area. Peter is on the cusp of really changing the management of mid-size law departments with the Law Department Consortium. Having served as in-house counsel for a number of years, Steve is now working at Integrity Interactive, the premier ethics and compliance partner to Global 2000 corporations. All were in town of the Corporate Counsel Superconference, sponsored by Corporate Legal Times.
I doubt I contributed a single meaningful thought during our 90 minutes, but I sure learned a lot. Thanks to my friends for their insights. I wouldn’t be surprised if one or two of the lessons from this morning find their way into this blog.