Nancy Laben always knew that the common route many newly minted law school graduates follow — obtaining a clerkship or landing a position at a Big Law firm — just wasn’t for her.
“I took stock of my skillset, and what I loved and was passionate about was the business side of law,” said Laben, who is General Counsel of the Northern Virginia-based management consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton.
During her third year at Columbia Law School in 1985, she landed a position in the IBM legal department’s two-year training rotational program. After four years with IBM, the company prepared to transfer Laben to their Burlington, Vermont offices. ...
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