EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second installment from Corporate Counsel’s new blogger, Rich Baer, general counsel and chief administrative officer of Qwest Communications International, Inc. Baer will be posting one-to-two times each week, and will share his experiences at Qwest, as well as his observations on legal departments, outside counsel, and the challenges facing lawyers and their profession today.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman. –Louis D. Brandeis