Corporate Counsel

Corporate Counsel

Jeffrey Hugh Newman | Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.

“It becomes about managing managers! Hire top quality managers. It’s about hiring ‘A’ players. ‘A’ players make all the difference! Effective leaders hire the ‘A.’ A’s are never too expensive … lesser-level hires are always too...

Corporate Counsel

Barbara Berger Opotowsky | New York City Bar Association

Editor: Barbara, it is hard to believe that you are retiring. Tell us about your career at the City Bar. Opotowsky: I don’t think of it as retiring. I’m just starting a new chapter, and we will see where that leads. As you know, since you have been involved for many years, the...

Corporate Counsel

Hervé Gouraige, Mark S. Olinsky | Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.

Editor: What is the impact of the FCPA, Whistleblowing, False Claims Act (including the qui tam provisions) and the UK and other antibribery laws on investigation procedures overall? Gouraige: The substantive legal rules don’t have a significant impact because internal investigation...