ALM's Corporate Counsel Magazine Selects 'The Shortlist': Ten Attorneys Most Likely to Become Top Counsel of Fortune 500 Companies.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- In its upcoming issue, ALM's Corporate Counsel (R) magazine reports its "Shortlist short·list also short-list n. A list of preferable items or candidates that have been selected for final consideration, as in making an award or filling a position. Noun 1. ," ten leading in-house attorneys with the potential to become general counsel of a Fortune 500 company within the next five years. Chosen by the magazine's editors based on extensive surveys of the industry, members of the Shortlist represent the cream of the current crop of in-house lawyers. The magazine has a knack for picking winners: five members of its first Shortlist, published in 2002, have since been appointed as general counsel at a Fortune 500 company and three have significantly expanded their responsibilities. The list, with profiles of its ten selections, will be published in the magazine's April issue and will be available online at www.corpcounsel.com. The 2005 Shortlist's members are Eric Bock Noun 1. bock - a very strong lager traditionally brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for consumption in the spring bock beer lager beer, lager - a general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally , executive vice president, law and corporate secretary, Cendant; N. Cornell Boggs III, GC, Tyco Plastics & Adhesives; Patricia Covington, deputy GC, CarMax; Michael McAlevey, chief corporate and securities counsel, General Electric; Carol Ann Petren, senior vice president and deputy GC, MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. ; Miriam Rivera, deputy GC, Google; Donald Rosenberg, vice president, assistant general counsel for litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. , IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) ; Alexander Schoch, vice president, GC Emerson Process Management, Emerson Electric; Peter Sherry, Jr., associate GC and corporate secretary, Ford; and Stefan Stein Stein , William Howard 1911-1980. American biochemist. He shared a 1972 Nobel Prize for pioneering studies of ribonuclease. , senior vice president and deputy GC, Qwest. "Our selections were based on extensive research. We surveyed nearly 1,000 general counsel and practice area heads, sent questionnaires to hundreds of managing partners at top law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
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