TheCorporateCounsel.net

Over the course of this year, I have been taking a walk down memory lane and looking back on 15 years of contributing to CCRcorp publications. One of my favorite features of the sites in the CCRcorp universe is the Q&A Forum, which just hit a new milestone of over 24,000 questions answered!

When I first joined the organization in 2007, I manned the Q&A Forums on TheCorporateCounsel.net and CompensationStandards.com, because I believed that I was uniquely qualified to answer the questions from our members, having just finished serving as the Chief Counsel of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance. I soon discovered it was a daunting task, and doing it gave me a new appreciation for how Broc Romanek and Alan Dye had been responding to all of those questions in the years before I started. Alan is of course always the inspiration, because he has been providing so much timely, useful advice on the Section16.net Q&A Forum for many years.

One of the most valuable things that I learned in my time serving at the SEC was how important it is to answer the question asked, and that is what attracted me to the Q&A Forums on the CCRcorp sites. I have sometimes been dubbed the “Shell Answer Man” because I developed a knack for answering questions over the course of my career. But the thing that I like the most about the Q&A Forums is the ability to interact directly with our members while getting a sense of the issues that they are struggling with in practice, because that helps me in my own practice and is useful for developing practical content for the CCRcorp publications.

– Dave Lynn