In-House Counsel

A major program of the 3M legal department to train leaders and business-savvy lawyers

By Rees Morrison

Marschall Smith, the General Counsel of 3M, described at the SuperConference one of his department?s significant investments in leadership development. He explained that every six months 15-20 of his 165 lawyers spend one week off campus at a program called the Leadership Development Council. The aim is to ?turn them into business associates with law degrees.?

The Council runs twice a year, so he is able to teach many more lawyers about business than the three lawyers a year that can attend a corporate high-potential program (See my post of July 29, 2007: high potentials with 10 references.).

Full post as published by Law Department Management on May 13, 2009 (boomark / email).