| Cafeteria Plan: GC Creates Recipe for Success With School Lunch Business: Kimberly M. Carlisle is the general counsel of a Dallas-based food service company called The Paper Plate Inc., which provides hot, nutritious lunches to more than 12,000 public school students. For the past 11 years, she has managed all the legal work behind the 70-employee company, which is on track to reach $10 million in revenue this year. She and her mother founded the business.
FMC Technologies Uses Social Networking to Find Firms: Houston-based manufacturer FMC Technologies Inc. is looking to update its roster of outside counsel and hire firms that embrace innovation, technology and, especially, alternative billing arrangements. But its general counsel, Jeffrey Carr, isn't holding an auction or putting out a request for proposals to find them.
New Deals: SolarWinds Inc. initial public offering
On-Call Employees Sue Over Unpaid Overtime: On-call employees are turning into a growing liability risk for employers, as some are claiming that companies are restricting their freedom too much, and not paying them for it.
Cutting Costs Is a Way of Life for In-Housers: How one local in-house counsel approaches outside law firms may very well summarize the state of today's legal economy.
In-House Texas: June 2009
June 01, 2009
