Articles by Steve Nowlan

Preventive Law		Law Department Critical Success Factors
	Preventive Law: Expanding Your Vision A tiered approach to organizing preventive law strategies can provide a major opportunity for companies to manage their risk profiles to great advantage.		Law Department Critical Success Factors: An Organizing Principle For Your Vision Seventeen Critical Success Factors to help organize and fortify your vision of the legal function, together with the results of the Strategic Initiatives Survey.

	Energizing Preventive Law: An interview with Rick A. Harrington, former General Counsel of ConocoPhillips, about his very effective preventive law strategy.		Building A World-Class Law Department For A Global Company: An interview with Thomas J. Sabatino Jr., former General Counsel of Baxter International Inc., about Critical Success Factors.

Managing Legal Risk		Communicating Strategic Value
	Managing Legal Risk To Meet The Challenges Of The 21st Century: The Enron situation may lead to expanded government controls, tighter accounting standards and more explicit duties for boards of directors, auditors, and most likely, corporate lawyers. Using the Gateway Model and a new set of post-Enron action steps, CLOs will be able to manage this risk-heavy environment.		Communicating The Strategic Value Of Your Law Department: "What have you done for me lately?" This is the common question from the CEO when reviewing the legal department's budget. The Strategic Value Analysis can help CLOs articulate the value of their departments.

	Does The Name "Insull" Ring A Bell? An interview with Donald P. Horwitz, former General Counsel of McDonald's. The Enron situation is not unique. More than 80 years ago, Samuel Insull was involved in a similar debacle. The consequences of both scandals are far-reaching--for investors, accounting firms and general counsel.		Preventive Law Creates Competitive Advantage: An Interview with Don H. Liu, former General Counsel, IKON Office Solutions about how his department creates advantages for the sales team through preventive law.

Law Department Culture Transformation		CLO Leadership
	The Keys To Transforming Your Law Department: To make the culture transformation from running in the Traditional Model to the Gateway Model, law departments must engage in spirited discussion, develop attorney core competencies and implement ways to measure it all.		Strategies For CLOs To Keep Vision And Values Center Stage In The Department: While the CLO is a key player in the organization as a whole, his or her most important role may be as leader of the legal department.

	Innovative Approaches To Enormous Challenges From The CLO 21 Advisory Group: The search for methods to better manage the law department led to the formation of the CLO 21 Group and to the Gateway Model. This is how it all got started.		Values, Vision And Leadership: An interview with Catherine A. Lamboley, former General Counsel, Shell Oil Company, in which she describes her leadership approach to department management.

Conducting Board Evaluations		Partnering With Law Firms
	Self-Help: Board Evaluations Become De Rigueur: Once a seldom used tool, board evaluations are becoming not only enthusiastically accepted, but also required. The benefits can be enormous. But so can the risks.		Case Study In Post-Convergence Partnering: Prudential Reaps Major Benefits This reengineering initiative, which included Best Practices jointly developed by inside and outside counsel, a focus on core competencies, and innovative technology, saved millions and increased morale. (Published in Metropolitan Corporate Counsel)

	Board Evaluations: A Delicate Balance. An interview with Michael D. Fricklas, General Counsel of Viacom about the Company's approach to board self-evaluations.