Tony Bowe Asks Bill Bowe about His Career as a General Counsel
Becoming a General Counsel Editor's Note: In this last of the series of interviews by my cousin Tony Bowe, he asked me how and when I shifted my career as a lawyer from private practice to serving in successive [...]
Becoming a General Counsel (in entirety)
Becoming a General Counsel Rod MacArthur and Bill Bowe 1979 Legal Training University of Chicago Law School Ihad only been at Ross, Hardies 11 months before I left for the Army. When I left [...]
Bradford Then and Now
Bradford Then and Now Hammacher's New York City flagship store Rod MacArthur had primarily bought Hammacher to expand its mail order catalog business. Founded in 1848, Hammacher remains America’s oldest running catalog. Before long, he had [...]
Hammacher-Schlemmer
Hammacher-Schlemmer Hammacher-Schlemmer 147 E. 57th St., New York, NY As I began work for Bradford in 1979, Rod MacArthur was directly engaged in the management of the company, but he was increasingly spending his [...]
Copyright & Trademark Mastery
Copyright and Trademark Mastery The marketing of collector’s plates involved a good deal of intellectual property law. The plate designs were mostly protected by copyright laws that prevented the artistic work from being copied. Bradford had created a [...]
Hiring Lawyers
Hiring Lawyers I also got my first taste at Bradford in managing litigation outside the United States. Bradford’s collector’s plates were usually made from isolated kaolin clay deposits in China, Japan, and Europe. With application of artwork applied, [...]
Legal Training
Legal Training University of Chicago Law School I had only been at Ross, Hardies 11 months before I left for the Army. When I left the Army, I was convinced I’d forgotten whatever it was I [...]
Recruitment as a General Counsel
Recruitment as a General Counsel Rod MacArthur at my wedding 1979 Roan & Grossman had grown modestly in the 1970s. I was made a partner sooner than many of my law school peers in large law [...]
