Legal Recoveries Programs: Converting The Legal Department into a Profit Center

Bryan Yeazel, Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Stock Building Supply Inc, USA

In-house lawyers are playing defense more than ever before. Large enterprises are often viewed as little more than well-heeled targets for the plaintiff’s bar. As a result, reasonable in-house counsel could fashion a full-time job simply waiting for and responding to the tsunami of private litigation, governmental investigations, regulatory requirements and compliance needs. But is that the best use of a General Counsel’s time? Is it in the best interests of a lawyer’s client?

Bryan J. Yeazel is the Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel of Stock Building Supply Holdings, Inc.. The views he expresses are his own and this article is written personally and not as a representative of his employer.

Stock Building Supply Holdings, Inc. is a one of the leading lumber and building material distributors in the United States of America and is publicly traded on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “STCK”.