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Nov. 18, 2011

On Wednesday, top in-house counsel for The Clorox Company, Gap Inc., Allstate Insurance Co. and other companies attended a signing at the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco for the book, “Courageous Counsel,” which features interviews with women who are general counsel at Fortune 500 companies. The book was co-authored by Michele Mayes, general counsel for Allstate Insurance, and Kara Baysinger, a partner at SNR Denton LLP. The authors pursued the book as an opportunity to bring to light to the little-discussed stories of female in-house attorneys. The first woman general counsel at a Fortune 500 company was Mary Ann Hynes, who became general counsel for Illinois-based Commerce Clearing House in 1979. — Saul Sugarman

On Wednesday, top in-house counsel for The Clorox Company, Gap Inc., Allstate Insurance Co. and other companies attended a signing at the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco for the book, 'Courageous Counsel,' which features interviews with women who are general counsel at Fortune 500 companies. The book was co-authored by Michele Mayes, general counsel for Allstate Insurance, and Kara Baysinger, a partner at SNR Denton LLP. The authors pursued the book as an opportunity to bring t...

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