Getty Images Corporate Counsel Staff Found on LinkedIn

[Matthew Chan]

I was originally doing some digging on Lisa Willmer and stumbled across her LinkedIn profile. 

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/lisa-willmer/a/a7b/b47

And what do I find in doing that? Several other Getty Images employee names who work in the Extortion oops, Corporate Counsel Department.

In no particular order, I am capturing these names for others to follow-up. All of these individuals are lawyers in good standing but might be vulnerable to complaints to the State Bar should they cross the line. For the most part, extortion letter recipients don't hear from these folks. They tend to (wisely) work quietly in the background letting the extortion collection clerks deal with the masses. But they also let outside lawyers like Timothy B. McCormack take the arrows.  After all, he is disposable to Getty Images.

Once Timothy B. McCormack outlives his usefulness, there are thousands of other lawyers able to take his place.
http://www.mywsba.org/default.aspx?tabid=178&RedirectTabId=177&Usr_ID=28074

Let me make it clear that I don't condone anyone trivially filing State Bar complaints on any lawyer as it can be damaging to their careers and reputation. But having said that, if any lawyer came after me unreasonably, I would not hesitate to do it. I absolutely believe in personal payback especially where unreasonable, bullying lawyers are concerned.

Yoko Miyashita (VP, Seattle)
http://www.mywsba.org/default.aspx?tabid=178&RedirectTabId=177&Usr_ID=32023

Lizanne Vaughan (Senior Director, Seattle)
http://www.mywsba.org/default.aspx?tabid=178&RedirectTabId=177&Usr_ID=25966

Lisa Willmer (Senior Director, Seattle)
http://www.mywsba.org/default.aspx?tabid=178&RedirectTabId=177&Usr_ID=31310

Ilana Safer (Director, NYC)
http://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/attorney/AttorneyDetails?attorneyId=5641510

Jason Camhi (NYC)
http://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/attorney/AttorneyDetails?attorneyId=5526641

Jonathan Lockwood (VP, UK)
Irene Paricaud (Director, UK)
Alec Cameron (Director, UK)

These are what I would consider "management" or "supervisory" positions who probably oversee and advise the hourly interns / extortion collection clerks. I cannot confirm this. This is only an educated guess based on what I have seen. I did not include the names of a couple of paralegals who work at Getty Images. I am guessing they are not part of the extortion collections team.

They all seem to work under the umbrella of John Lapham (Seattle), Senior Vice_President of General Counsel.
http://www.mywsba.org/default.aspx?tabid=178&RedirectTabId=177&Usr_ID=23254

[Robert Krausankas (BuddhaPi)]

Amazing how they all have linkedin accounts and only 2 have images...reminds me of the story of the troll that lives under the bridge..
John Lapham manages Getty Images "global legal team:


Image courtesy of Getty Images ( for editorial purposes)

They even have a handy little download link on their site, how convenient!
http://company.gettyimages.com/officers.cfm?isource=corporate_website_officers&idT=EN#LC


John's expertise includes merger and acquisition work, intellectual property rights protection, competition matters, litigation, employment law and contracts. His experience and contributions are an important part of advancing the company's growth and intellectual property rights and managing legal and business risks.

Just my opinion but I think they may have left out a few specialty's...

trolling
extorting
scheming
scamming
robbing

[SoylentGreen]

This guy looks like a movie villain that I've seen somewhere.
You know, some actor that looks a bit odd in the first place, and then they add tons of make-up.
I'm thinking movies like "Dick Tracy" or one of the "Batman" films.
It's driving me nuts... can somebody help for the lulz?

S.G.

[Peeved]

How bout Steve Buscemi? Not to insult Steve however, he rocks!

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTzTYdschR3g8GZyHmOhjrTcv8g1PaeB1DVjcweDz8Uih-QmZ-V

This guy looks like a movie villain that I've seen somewhere.
You know, some actor that looks a bit odd in the first place, and then they add tons of make-up.
I'm thinking movies like "Dick Tracy" or one of the "Batman" films.
It's driving me nuts... can somebody help for the lulz?

S.G.

[Mulligan]

Given my very ugly mug, I can't in good conscience cast stones about John Lapham's appearance, but I will say that I'd hate to have this man's karma.

The vibe coming off his photograph immediately summoned from my old brain the last stanza of Emily Dickinson's wonderful poem, "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass":

But never met this fellow,
Attended or alone,
Without a tighter breathing,
And zero at the bone.

[Robert Krausankas (BuddhaPi)]

You owe me a new keyboard, as mine is covered with mountain dew!!

How bout Steve Buscemi? Not to insult Steve however, he rocks!

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTzTYdschR3g8GZyHmOhjrTcv8g1PaeB1DVjcweDz8Uih-QmZ-V

[SoylentGreen]

Lol'd hard at the responses here...
Very, very clever.

I'm gonna find out who this guy reminds me of...

S.G.

[SoylentGreen]

"Nosferatu"?

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/606/johnlaphamgettyguynosfe.jpg

S.G.