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Goodwill a chance to do ‘inspiring’ work for Farrell In-house has benefits, but ‘easy’ it’s not Privilege a challenge for in-house lawyers For Black, engine work was early intro to Kohler’s culture Lemon leads to in-house career choice for Hanz Jones proud of role in Manitowoc’s rapid growth ACC program aims to improve relationships between in-house, outside counsel Former nurse ...

Joan B. Farrell got a new lease on her life in the law last December.

Natalie A. Black, general counsel of Kohler Co. in Kohler, unabashedly loves her job.

Some things are easier said than done.

Natalie A. Black believes she might be the only in-house lawyer who has ever taken apart an engine and put it back together again.

As an undergraduate, Patricia M. Hanz’s boyfriend had an unfortunate experience with a used car that he’d purchased from a dealer.

In 1999, Maurice D. Jones joined the Manitowoc Company Inc. as its secretary and general counsel. He was the legal department.

Much like a marriage, the relationship between in-house and outside counsel becomes strained when communication breaks down and there are no shared goals.

Nobel Prize winner Dag Hammarskjold once said, “Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation.”

Raymond J. Manista’s work days are “predictably unpredictable,” and he wouldn’t have it any other way.

Not every in-house lawyer owns a pair of steel-toed work boots and a hardhat like Lisa Martinez.

There’s a huge difference between an American company doing business in a few “foreign” countries and a U.S.-based company that does business globally and looks and feels like its worldwide markets.

Brookfield-based Fiserv Inc. serves 99 of the top 100 banks in the U.S.; it processes 76 percent of the online bill payments in the U.S.; and it serves four out of every 10 online banking customers in the U.S.

Barbara J. Swan’s job would certainly be easier if a crystal ball could just tell her what the future will bring. But it wouldn’t be nearly as fun, either.

Perhaps it’s because Chad R. Taylor was one of five children that he feels so at home in-house at Thelen Sand & Gravel.

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After three years in private practice as a litigator, Patricia M. Whaley told her colleagues she was leaving to go in-house. The universal response was she’d be bored because she wouldn’t get to go to court.