He's fighting plans to regulate CPAs

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Richard Miller, general counsel and secretary of the American Society of Public Accountants (AICPA), heads a department providing the AICPA on areas including the setting of practice standards, the designing of cooperative contracts, the handling of employment issues, and the handling of copyright and trademark issues. Issues in the news in which the AICPA has an opinion include whether the accounting profession is somehow at fault in the rash of business failures and whether letting accountants perform some legal activities constitutes unfair competition for the legal profession.

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Miller, Richard

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Piloting a crew of lawyers for United

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Francesca M Maher, the senior vice pres, general counsel and secretary of United Airlines, has charge of a department of 20 attorneys, who focus on litigation management, client counseling, and transactional work. Work outsourced includes most of the employment cases, cargo claims and passenger liability. One of Maher's emphases is holding meetings to learn from completed litigation, and she has also created a centralized work product database that will hopefully be interconnected with the company's outside counsel.

United States, United Air Lines Inc., Maher, Francesca M.

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