A 'hired gun' for new management

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Carlton S Chen, the vice pres and general counsel of firearms maker Colt's Manufacturing Co, Inc, supervises patent and trademark administration and does most of the company's contract work as the sole in-house lawyer. The legal budget was $2.2 mil in 1996 but down about 30% the next year. Colt attempted a takeover of Belgian gunmaker F.N. Herstal SA in July 1997 when it was in financial trouble. but the Belgian government rejected the plan.

Management, Colt's Manufacturing Company Inc., Chen, Carlton S.

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Quality is the key, not cost control

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Edward V. Lahey, Jr., the senior vice pres, general counsel and secretary of Pepsico, supervises a department of 80 in-house lawyers and has an outside legal budget of $25 mil. The in-house lawyers practice mainly securities and trademark law, financings and acquisitions. Litigation is done mainly by outside counsel. Lahey states his department has long been cost-conscious and considers his in-house purpose to be preventive.

Practice, Employment, PepsiCo Inc., PEP, Lahey, Edward V., Jr.

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Banking on lawyers to play by the rules

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Michael E. Bleier is the General Counsel to Mellon Bank Corp. This profile of him includes descriptions of the legal department he leads at Mellon Bank as well information about his legal career and his personal life. Bleier comments specifically on the relationship between in-house and outside counsel, and generally on changing dynamics in the legal profession.

Attorneys, Biography, Mellon Bank Corp., MEL, Bleier, Michael E.

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