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AmLaw's newest No. 2

By Mark Obbie

Robin Sparkman is the new executive editor of The American Lawyer. She was named to the vacancy that was created, in chain-reaction fashion, nearly two years ago by Jan Crawford Greenburg's move from the Chicago Tribune to ABC. Greenburg's post was left vacant for 14 months, and then filled last July by Jim Oliphant, editor of Legal Times. Oliphant was replaced in September by David Brown, AmLaw's respected executive editor. Since then, Aric Press, with an able assist from deputy editor and veteran AmLaw senior writer Alison Frankel, held down the fort without a replacement.Sparkman has been editor of AmLaw spinoff title Corporate Counsel for nearly seven years. Along the way, she added the title of deputy editorial director of American Lawyer Media's national publications. Pre-ALM, she was a writer and editor at MSNBC.com and Newsweek. She is The American Lawyer's third executive editor since I left in June 2004. I had a hand in hiring Sparkman back then for Corporate Counsel, which focuses on in-house lawyers at major corporations. She proved herself to be a talented editor for a magazine that has blossomed into a monthly editorial and business success from its roots as a quarterly supplement to The American Lawyer. Named as acting Corporate Counsel editor is Anthony Paonita, Sparkman's No. 2.

Full post as published by Lawbeat on January 07, 2008 (boomark / email).