Meet the 4 New Good Counsel Writers Who Joined Our Ranks in 2025

The Good Counsel column underwent a momentous shift this year when long-time columnist Rob Chesnut stepped away to serve as general counsel for a sustainability reporting startup.

The Outside Commentary team decided it was time for a Good Counsel makeover. We have four new columnists bringing insights from different corners of the corporate counsel world, plus new artwork from Bloomberg Law graphic designer Jonathan Hurtarte.

Here’s preview of the wide-ranging topics Good Counsel will explore in 2026.

Ellen Yang, GC at DTO Law

Ellen Yang serves as general counsel for boutique law firm DTO Law. Before making the move back to law firm life, albeit as general counsel, she served in in-house leadership roles at Cruise LLC, Penske Motor Group, and Taco Bell.

She will be writing about career and lifestyle for Bloomberg Law, starting with her debut column about how to get out of a rut in your in-house career. Read More

Paula Boggs, Former Starbucks GC

Columnist Paula Boggs has done it all: Army Airborne veteran, federal prosecutor, US Army captain, served in the Office of White House Counsel, tech executive, and she currently fronts the Paula Boggs Band. She spent 10 years from 2002 to 2012 as the general counsel, secretary, and executive vice president of Starbucks Coffee Co.

For Bloomberg Law, she is writing about leadership, legal ethics, and direction of the profession, drawing from her deep career.

For one of her first columns, she explored this tricky moment for the American Bar Association, an organization for which she served on the Board of Governors and in the House of Delegates. She says the ABA needs to figure out how to convince lawyers that membership is worth it for them. Read More

Carliss Chatman, Professor at SMU Dedman School of Law

Carliss Chatman teaches and writes about commercial law, corporate law, race and inequality, and professional responsibility—all topics you can look for in future columns. She will also be writing about Texas’ moves to challenge Delaware as the home of corporate law and what it means for companies.

Before teaching, she worked in-house for an energy firm as well as in Big Law. In her most recent column, she writes about what the next generation of lawyers will need to learn to be ready for the artificial intelligence era, and how SMU Dedman is preparing them. Read More

Eric Greenberg, GC at Cox Media Group

Eric Dodson Greenberg is the executive vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary of Cox Media Group, an Apollo Global Management portfolio company.

Prior to moving in-house, Eric was a partner at two Big Law firms, and served as an attorney-adviser in the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel.

Eric is an innovator and thought leader for how AI will change legal departments, their work, and their relationship to outside counsel. But not all automation is good automation in his view. In one of his first columns, he looks at how automated billing strains the relationship between outside counsel and their clients. Read More

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