LiamRossHawkenProjects2022

  I was told more about what makes them so successful throughout my following interviews with the legal team. One interview I found particularly interesting was with Mr. Steve Klinge, an Associate General Counsel, and Assistant Secretary. During this interview, Mr. Kling talked about how COVID affected the company. Covid changed talent development in the way that it made competition for talent more serious. As a result of COVID, many companies were forced to go online which in turn made people realize they didn't have to move to work for the company they wanted to work for anymore—making it easier for people to get hired and harder to find the talent they want at Parker. Mr. Klinge also talked about the ESG motto and its importance for everyone on the legal team to follow and live it. I learned more about what Mr. Klinge and some of my other legal team interviewees do for parker, and how they communicate with investors and clients. How they tell people bad news and how they approac...

 Over my next couple of interviews, I learned a little more about the fluid connectors group but more importantly, I started interviewing the legal team for Parker. At the head of it, was my mentor Mr. Leonti, who I spent the morning with learning in-depth about what he does and how he does it. Mr. Leonti is included in every Parker legal matter worldwide, he oversees buying and selling and also any lawsuits Parker has to deal with. One of the most important things he does is in charge of supervising acquisitions which is one of the main ways the company grows. Mr. Leonti told me even more about ESG and how important that motto is for the company, especially from a legal aspect. I was also told about how people in the legal team have their own roles and deal with certain aspects of things, and how there are dedicated people all across the board. Mr. Leonti also wants Parker's legal team to be one that people want to work with and don't dread coming to when there's an issue....

 Over the first few days of my senior project, I got to go into Parker and interview some of the head members of the fluid connectors division. Throughout my first three interviews, I got to learn all about what makes Parker so successful and how they manage day-to-day tasks. During my first interview with Mr. Kevin Ruffer (the head HR person for the fluid connectors group), he told me all about some of the issues he had to overcome because of Covid and how he handled it. Also, during this interview, I got my first insight into the WIN strategy, which is the primary business strategy used by Parker. In the WIN strategy, there are four pillars (Engaged People, Customer Experience, Profitable Growth, and Finacial Peformance), and each pillar is the main strategy for each kind of worker. Throughout my next two interviews, I learned more about the WIN strategy and how each of the 4 pillars of the strategy checks each other and keeps one another in balance. While interviewing the VP of ...

  Some goals of my project are to learn more about how law and business intertwine. I will be interviewing 16 different employees at Parker Hannifin over the course of three weeks. I will be interviewing people from the fluid connectors group and the legal team. My mentor Mr. Leonti will be working with me and teaching me about what he does and obviously about law and how laws affect companies. I'm gonna be spending time researching my interviewees and learning more about each of their backgrounds so I can be prepared with good questions that will give me the information I am looking for. My main goal is to find out what it takes to be an attorney at a large corporation.