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Modern Counsel is a community of today's leading in-house legal professionals. We provide a platform that highlights various aspects of their careers by sharing their experiences—from how they organize their departments and manage teams to issues related to intellectual property and new technologies. Through captivating articles, we connect in-house counsel from different sectors, encouraging them to share their insights, learn from one another, and build relationships. Joining Modern Counsel allows you to engage with a broader in-house network by sharing your unique experiences. Our aim is to foster an environment where legal leaders can exchange ideas and knowledge as we all face the challenges of a complex business landscape.

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Bill Burtis Believes Compliance Is a Growth Enabler

Jan 13, 2025 | modern-counsel.com | Frank DiMaria

The ancient practice of tenkara—a fly-fishing technique originating in the mountains of Japan that strips angling down to its simplest form—has taught Bill Burtis patience, focus, and mindfulness, virtues useful as Juniper Networks’ chief compliance officer. “(Tenkara) is not merely casting the line into the water to see what you might catch. It requires strategic thinking, considering the type of fly, reading water conditions, and the approach.
Adam Hornung Leads with Patience

Jan 13, 2025 | modern-counsel.com | Zach Baliva

In 2012, Adam Hornung moved to Hong Kong to help Hillhouse Investment Management find new investment opportunities and close complex global deals. Although Hornung was living 7,500 miles from his native Nebraska, the transition was relatively smooth. His wife was excited for the move and their daughters would attend an American school. Hornung, an accomplished lawyer, had already spent six years as outside counsel for Hillhouse.
Bo Han Advances Scientific Breakthroughs Via IP Strategy

Jan 12, 2025 | modern-counsel.com | Billy Yost

Bo Han’s two-year-old daughter Zoe inspired her to join the young and innovative biotech company Orbital Therapeutics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “During my parental leave, my daughter gave me the time away from work to reflect on what I wanted next in my legal career,” Han says. “Lawyers are, by nature, risk adverse. At first, I was hesitant to leave the innovation law department at Bristol Myers Squibb, an established, global biopharmaceutical company.
Beth Crocker Has a Commitment to Integrity

Jan 12, 2025 | modern-counsel.com | Keith Loria

For much of her early life, Beth Crocker dreamed of becoming a veterinarian and graduated from Clemson University with a degree in animal science. While pursuing her degree, Crocker developed a new interest in agriculture. Rather than going to vet school right away, she spent a year working various farm jobs. After those around her suggested she go to law school, she did some research and learned about a unique niche.
Chinenye Okafor Teaches IP 101 at Fluence Energy

Dec 16, 2024 | modern-counsel.com | Frank DiMaria

In the Okafor household, if something broke, Chinenye Okafor would fix it. “I would wire things and weld things together and get a lot of our technology devices back up and running,” she says. With exceptional math and science grades in high school, it was an easy conclusion she would become an engineer. After all, her father has a PhD in engineering and is a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering.
Catherine Razzano Leads the Way

Dec 8, 2024 | modern-counsel.com | Zach Baliva

It was a record at the time: 315 million downloads in three months. The app saw its US unique visitor count spike by nearly 50 percent in the same period. The impressive growth came as isolated Americans looked for a way to cope with the stress wrought by COVID-19 lockdowns. Where did most turn to? It wasn’t Netflix, Zoom, Snapchat, YouTube, or Twitter. Most sought entertainment, relief, distraction, and connection on a four-year-old short-form video platform called TikTok.
Willie White Lives Culture Transformation at JELD-WEN - Modern Counsel

Nov 25, 2024 | modern-counsel.com | Frannie Sprouls

Early in the morning, half awake and eating breakfast before school, Willie White and his older brother would hear inspirational speeches from their father. In these motivational moments, their father would tell them they could be anything they wanted to be. One story involved becoming lawyers and running their own law firm. “That was the first time I thought about going into law,” says White, a native of Charlotte, North Carolina.
Erika Bauer is the Keeper of the Culture at Casey’s

Nov 24, 2024 | modern-counsel.com | Billy Yost

If you’ve spent time in America’s heartland, chances are you’re well acquainted with the red and white of Casey’s convenience stores and gas stations. With over 2,900 stores from western Nebraska to eastern Tennessee, Casey’s is a Midwest institution—and Erika Bauer represents the best of the culture the organization has created since its founding in 1968.
Audrey Sheetz Works Across the Business

Nov 10, 2024 | modern-counsel.com | Frank DiMaria

An avid sports fan, Audrey Sheetz has always found the intersection of sports and the business world interesting. “Especially how it interplays with the law and regulation,” says Sheetz, senior counsel of litigation at FanDuel. In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, setting the stage for states to allow legal, regulated, single-game wagers on both collegiate and professional sports.
Valencia Gallon-Stubbs Comes Home to Daytona Beach

Nov 4, 2024 | modern-counsel.com | Billy Yost |Andrew Evangelista

There’s a quote from Marvel’s Black Panther that has stuck with Valencia Gallon-Stubbs since she saw the movie. A fierce general of the special forces in the fictional land of Wakanda is asked by the man she loves if she would kill him for the sake of her country. Her response? “For Wakanda? Without question.”That level of dedication mirrors Gallon-Stubbs’s commitment to her role as general counsel for Bethune-Cookman University, a private historically Black university in Daytona Beach, Florida.