Ep: 45 Sherry Williams | Senior Legal Executive | Working with Recruiters | Insights & Myths | Leadership Lessons | Legal Industry African American Heroes | Race & 2020 | Managing Chaos

The Law Firm Leadership Podcast | We Interview Corp Defense Law Firm Leaders, Partners, General Counsel and Legal Consultants

I interviewed Sherry Williams | Senior Legal Executive and Former VP, Deputy General Counsel, Global Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer at Jabil on Friday, June 12th, 2020.

We discussed several topics such as:

• Her Experience in Working with Recruiters
• 2 Myths Believed of Recruiters
• Advice for Optimizing the Recruiter/Professional Relationship
• What Sets Apart Recruiters & the Biggest Area of Needed Improvement
• Rewards of Leadership and Clear Communication
• Her Own Leaders & Heroes
• The Art of Shameless Self-Promotion
• Private Practice vs In-House | A Different Kind of Hard Work
• Advice for Diverse Attorneys in 2020’s Racial Landscape
• Her Personal Fears & Hopes for Change
• Managing the Chaos of Being a Parent & a Professional
• Her Superpowers & Kryptonite

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Links referred to in this episode:

• Sherry Williams | LinkedIn Profile
• Stuart Singer | Partner | Boies Schiller Flexner
• Gregg Breitbart | Office Managing Partner | Kaufman Dolowich Voluck
• Albert “Bert” Cornelison | Retired General Counsel | Halliburton
• Thurgood Marshall | First African American Supreme Court Justice
• Barbara Jordan | U.S. Congressional Representative from Texas
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
• Charissie Lillie | CEO | CRL Consulting
• Benjamin Wilson | Chairman | Beveridge & Diamond
• Joseph West | Partner & Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer | Duane Morris
• Kim Rucker | Member of Board of Directors | Celanese
• Janet Langford Carrig | Previous SVP, General Counsel, & Corporate Secretary | ConocoPhillips
• Don Prophete |A Black Partner Responds to GCs on Law Firm Diversity
• Ben Wilson & Scott Bolden |‘This Has to Be a Seminal Moment’: Black Law Firm Leaders on Inequity, Ire and What Comes Next
• Ben Wilson |‘A Leader Must Be Fearless’
• Joseph West |Talking ‘The Talk’: Words Seem Futile When Videos Speak for Themselves