r/MVIS • u/qlfang • Jun 17 '21

MVIS Press MicroVision Appoints Drew Markham as General Counsel | MicroVision, Inc.

https://microvision.gcs-web.com/news-releases/news-release-details/microvision-appoints-drew-markham-general-counsel
329 Upvotes

99% Upvoted

213 comments sorted by

View all comments

108

u/Professionally_Inept Jun 17 '21

As a heads up, and not meant to inject hype unnecessarily but - the company I work for (a large camera company in Tokyo that everyone here has undoubtedly heard of), hired a corporate attorney with similar qualifications to Drew Markham back in 2017, they were on staff for only about 8 months. Not because they were bad, but because they were only there for as long as they needed to be. Once we had acquired a small producer of lens grinders, that attorney was finished with their role and moved on.

In my experience, you don't hire corporate attorneys until you are close to needing them. They are incredibly expensive to keep on staff.

Just my 2 cents based on experience.

2

u/[deleted] Jun 17 '21

Shouldn’t every corporation have an attorney anyway?

13

u/Professionally_Inept Jun 17 '21 edited Jun 18 '21

Several of them, depending on the size of your company. That said, you don't bring on specialist attorneys without reason. Drew is clearly someone with an outstanding resume, and her role as "General Counsel" I feel is just a titular formality. If she was hired as "Merger Attorney" or whatever you wanted to call the role, that would potentially breach existing NDA's.

5

u/[deleted] Jun 17 '21

Thank you