Thanks to the many who came out for Cooley’s big party at the annual conference for the Society of Corporate Governance. I’ve been attending this conference for 28 years – gulp! – and it remains pivotal for those in this space. As usual, I took selfies with some of the people that I met for the first time: 2. Olga Khvatskaya- Dollar Tree Stores 3. …
How to Be Quoted by the Media
As I celebrate the 24th anniversary of my blogging this week, I thought I’d share my ten cents about dealing with journalists since I’ve been quoted through the years quite a bit. During the height of the Sarbanes-Oxley implementation craze, I’d talk to at least two reporters per week. The $64,000 question for you should be: “how do I get quoted in the media?” The …
Happy 25th Birthday to RealCorporateLawyer.com!
How many of you remember RealCorporateLawyer.com? I sure do. It was my first website – and I launched it twenty-five years ago today. I left the SEC at the end of ’98, having been sort of the “Internet guy” within Corp Fin for a few years – handling a lot of issues related to how this new thing called “the Web” impacted the securities laws. …
Congrats to McKesson’s Jim Brashear!
Bracebridge Young was one of the founders and a long-term CEO of the “American Society of Corporate Secretaries,” which is now called the “Society of Corporate Governance.” He was widely admired back in his heyday about 70 years ago. For some time, the Society has given an Award in Bracebridge’s name. The Award is considered the Society’s highest honor in an effort to recognize persons …
Sights of the “Society of Corporate Governance” Conference
It was great seeing so many old friends – and meeting new ones – last week at the Society of Corporate Governance Annual Conference. Here are some pics from it: Microsoft’s Michael Pressman Constellation Energy’s Arden Phillips, BlackRock’s John Roe and Aon’s Dan Pliskin Prudential’s Peggy Foran Cooley’s Liz Dunshee and KPMG’s Rani Doyle Cooley’s Proxy Season Wristbands! Jones Day’s Bryan Brown, 2engage’s Dwayne Hampton …
Liz Dunshee Joins Cooley! I’m So Happy…
You can’t imagine the extent of my joy that Liz Dunshee has decided to join us here at Cooley. Liz and I worked together at TheCorporateCounsel.net – where she’ll still be putting in some time – and I can tell you from first-hand experience that she is special. I knew Liz was unique from the moment we met. During my 17-year run at TheCorporateCounsel.net, I …
The Upcoming Society Conference: Proxy Season Wristbands!
If you’re attending the ‘Society of Corporate Governance’ Conference in Colorado in a few weeks, look for one of our Cooley people – including me – so that you can procure one of our nifty “proxy season wristbands.” You can visit us at our cocktail party on Thursday, July 10th at “The Golden Bee” at the Broadmoor starting at 7:30 pm – everyone attending the …
Celebrating 23 Years of Blogging!
Hard to believe but yesterday was my 23rd year blogging anniversary. Someone recently asked me how I came to be one of the first lawyers to blog. The few other lawyers with a blog at that time blogged solely about marketing for lawyers; not about the law itself. I was unique. Back in early ’02, I was reading one of the dying tech magazines – …
15 Types of Tasks Where AI Can Be Most Useful
As inspired by a recent newsletter from Ethan Mollick of One Useful Thing, here are 15 types of tasks where artificial intelligence can be useful, given its current capabilities:
Learning the AI Basics: How to Distinguish AI Tools
This monthly feature is where I bullet the latest developments in using generative artificial intelligence to help you in your career (and life). This first one comes courtesy of Ethan Mollick, author of the “One Useful Thing” Substack, with commentary from me about how it might apply to our field – the goal of the note below is for you to learn the basics of …