LAW DEPARTMENT MANAGEMENT By Daryl-Lynn Carlson
The right
Building a legal team that includes age and experience, as well as
youth and exuberance is often a balancing act.
mix
Jonathan Horlick, vice president and associate counsel for Calgary's Talisman Energy Inc. joined the company in 2009 and soon recognized the department had a vital shortage of lawyers in the intermediate range of both experience and age. The in-house legal department experienced a dearth of younger lawyer recruits 10 years earlier, illustrating the ebbs and flows of competition for top hires in Canada's market. Horlick based his assessment of the Talisman legal
team on his experience working for private law firms before moving to the corporate law sector for two startup companies, then acting as a consultant adviser
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