A decade ago, when Aileen Casanave was in-house at Sun Microsystems Inc., she switched from one practice area to another. Casanave, the former senior marketing counsel, became senior sales counsel. The senior sales counsel? Moved over to product. And product? Moved to marketing.
The idea came from then-general counsel Michael Dillon, who tried a similar experiment with a couple of vice presidents of Sun’s legal department. “Mike felt that, in order to have a well-rounded legal staff at all levels, everybody should rotate from time to time,” Casanave said. “It was ring around the rosie. We held hands and shifted to the right.”
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