Two younger lawyers remained, and another young lawyer was hired at the exact time I was, so we had all this institutional knowledge heading out the door.”įortunately, the young lawyers who remained proved to be the bedrock for a legal team that has evolved considerably since Strother’s first day. “Both the general counsel and the senior-most attorney, with twenty-plus years of experience each, were retiring at the same time. “When I took over the legal department, there was budget for a general counsel and four lawyers,” Strother explains. Todd Strother, EVP and Chief Legal Officer, EMC Insurance Companies Photo by Steve McTee New Beginnings But even before his latest promotion, he worked to realign and refocus the legal department, a move that has benefited the company in various ways-especially when they decided to go private in 2019.
He now oversees not only legal but also corporate office claims, compliance, government relations, governance, vendor management, enterprise development, administration, and facilities. Strother was hired as general counsel in 2016 and has since been promoted to executive vice president and chief legal officer. “I jumped at the opportunity simply because I knew what EMC stood for, how it treated its people, and its reputation in the community,” Strother says. One of the firm’s largest clients, EMC Insurance Companies, was a company Strother had come to know well, and when their longtime general counsel announced his intention to retire, an opportunity to move in-house presented itself. Strother joined the Des Moines firm Bradshaw, Fowler, Proctor & Fairgrave in 1999. After starting his career at Foley & Lardner, Strother and his wife returned to their hometown to raise a family. A native of Ankeny, Iowa, he’d met his wife-another Ankeny original-in Chicago. After twenty-one years in private practice, Todd Strother didn’t think he’d ever leave.
0 kommentar(er)
