News On Women

Karen Klein Made GC at Kayak.com

Kayak.com appointed Karen Klein General Counsel. Karen had been Group Vice President, Legal for Orbitz Worlwide, Inc. Read more about it in the Company press release.

Miggie Cramblit Made GC at Northwestern Energy

Northwestern Energy Corporation (NYSE: NWE) appointed Miggie Cramblit Vice President and General Counsel. Miggie had been General Counsel for DPL Inc. Read more about it in the Company press release.

Debra Kuper Made GC at AGCO

AGCO (NYSE: AG) appointed Debra Kuper Vice President and General Counsel of the Company. Debra had been Senior Corporate Counsel at Caterpillar Inc. Read more about it in the Business Wire press release.

C. Kay Mann Made GC at Noble

Noble Environmental Power Company appointed C. Kay Mann its General Counsel. Kay had been Senior Counsel for GE Oil & Gas. Read more about it in the prnewswire press release.

Donna Hargrove Made GC at AmWINS

AmWINS Group Inc. appointed Donna Hargrove General Counsel. Donna had been lead Corporate In-House Counsel at BB&T Insurance Services Inc. Read more about it in the Business Wire press release.

Donna Dabney Made VP at Alcoa

Alcoa Corporation (NYSE: AA) appointed Donna Dabney a Vice President of the Corporation. Donna is Assistant General Counsel of Alcoa. Read more about it in the Business Wire press release.

Ann Munson Steines Made VP and Deputy GC at Macy's

Macy's Inc. (NYSE: M) appointed Ann Munson Steines Vice President and Deputy General Counsel. Ann currently serves as Associate General Counsel at Macy's. Read more about it in the Business Wire press release.

Elise Zealand Becomes GC at Penton Media

Penton Media Inc. appointed Elise Zealand General Counsel for the Company. Elise had been a Senior Associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. Read more about it in the Business Wire press release.

De'Ana Dow Made SVP and Carla Seales-Penn Made VP at NYMEX

NYMEX Holdings Inc. promoted De'Ana Dow to Senior Vice President and Chief Legislative Counsel. De'Ana had been with NYMEX since 2005. Nymex appointed Carla Seales-Penn Vice President of Information Services Finance and Budgeting. Read about this and other promotions in the prnewswire press release on cnnmoney.com.

Deborah Epstein Henry Gives us "FACTS"

Lisa Belkin of the New York Times writes today about Deborah Epstein Henry, Founder and President of Flex-Time Lawyers, and how law firms are rethinking their standard ways of doing business. Lisa discusses Deborah's proposal called "FACTS", which allows work time to be Fixed (lower profile work and predictable hours), Annualized (high energy periods followed by lulls), Core (blocks mapped out for work and family), Targeted (agreed goal for hours), or Shared. Read more about it in Lisa's interesting article on nytimes.com. (Image of Deborah borrowed from her exec bio on flextimelawyers.com.)