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Crain's Chicago Business, February, 2000 by STRAHLER, STEVEN R.

Morgan Stanley trades in one local for another in top legal spot Normally, the appointment of a general counsel, especially one who is a woman, by one of Chicago's bigger enterprises would merit a line or two. Not a peep, however, from ABN AMRO North America Inc., which owns LaSalle Bank, where Christine A.

Edwards became chief legal officer last month. "We tend not to get into personnel issues in the media," says an ABN spokeswoman. For the record, Ms. Edwards, 47, resigned last year as Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co.'s top attorney amid controversy over a $10,000 payment to an informer who spied on a fired employee. A Dean Witter veteran, she had remained a Chicago-area resident, and the word is that she and ABN are extremely pleased, as they say in press...

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