2010 Corporate Leadership Award Dinner
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| David Scott Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary |
Jeffrey W. Carr Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary |
On October 20, 2010, CPR honored David Scott, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Amgen Inc., and Jeffrey W. Carr, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of FMC Technologies Inc. The 2010 Corporate Leadership Award was presented at a black tie dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City which attracted 500 attendees representing the country’s top corporations, law firms, scholars, and public institutions.
About David Scott and Amgen
Scott has been in his Amgen post since 2004, focusing on the biotech giant’s intellectual property needs. Amgen is a 30-year-old Thousand Oaks, Calif.-based company that develops drug treatments for cancer, kidney disease, and other serious illnesses. Scott joined Amgen after serving as general counsel at Minneapolis-based Medtronic Inc. He previously was general counsel of United Distillers & Vintners in London, and formerly worked at RJR Nabisco Inc.
In his acceptance remarks, Scott praised his law department team for their incorporation of alternative dispute resolution in their assessment management of issues. He emphasized that “ADR is a strategic imperative for outside firms doing business with Amgen that allows the corporation’s best interest to be served.”
Amgen has applied ADR methods throughout its history, first using arbitration clauses in its early 1980s licensing agreements. Amgen continues to use conflict resolution clauses in its licensing agreements, and also has incorporated ADR clauses into employment and vendor contracts over the years. The company has long backed CPR Institute initiatives, having signed CPR’s Corporate Policy Statement on Alternatives to Litigation in 1994. In the nonbinding policy statement, better known as the CPR Corporate Pledge, companies unilaterally announce that they will explore alternatives to litigation, including direct negotiations and mediation, before filing a suit to settle disputes.
About Jeffrey Carr and FMC Technologies
Jeffrey Carr has been a longtime advocate for alternative billing in his post at Houston-based FMC Technologies, which develops and manufactures production and refining technologies for the energy industry.
In accepting the Corporate Leadership Award, Carr recognized his law firm partners and credited them for their vision to move away from “business as usual”. He stated, “It is imperative that we - clients and firms - work together to resolve disputes more efficiently. Disputes are inevitable, but at the end of the day, it’s not about the battle, but about the results for our business. We work hard to resolve matters efficiently and effectively and incorporating CPR’s disciplines in the process helps us achieve better results.”
Carr is responsible for designing FMC Technologies’ “ACES” law firm engagement model. He has been general counsel since 2001, but joined the company’s predecessor, FMC Corp., in 1993. Before his current position, Carr was associate general counsel for FMC’s energy and airport systems business groups. He is also a CPR Institute board member. Prior to joining FMC, Carr founded and managed International Advisory Services Group Ltd., an international trade policy, investment banking and commercial consulting firm with offices in Washington, Prague and Manila.
2010 Dinner Committee
| Committee Chair Charles R. Morgan The Morgan Group Frank Aquila Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Andrew R. Brownstein Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Brackett B. Denniston, III Senior Vice President and General Counsel General Electric Company Lisa Damon Seyfarth Shaw LLP Russell C. Deyo Vice President & General Counsel Johnson & Johnson Stephen F. Gates Former SVP and General Counsel of ConocoPhillips Mayer Brown LLP Jonathan P. Graham Senior Vice President and General Counsel Danaher Corporation Raymond A. Jacobsen McDermott Will & Emery LLP |
Steven O. Kramer Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP Carla P. Herron Group Counsel-Litigation The Shell Group Elizabeth D. Mann Mayer Brown LLP Brien T. O’Connor Ropes & Gray LLP Brad Smith Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Legal & Corporate Affairs Microsoft Corporation PD Villarreal Senior Vice President-Global Litigation GlaxoSmithKline plc Thomas L. Sager Senior Vice President and General Counsel DuPont Company Amy W. Schulman Senior Vice President and General Counsel Pfizer Inc |
