Ellen Oran Kaden was the chief legal and government affairs officer at

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. She joined the company in 1998, after having served as the chief legal officer of CBS, Inc. Prior to joining CBS, Kaden practiced law at

Cravath, Swaine & Moore Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP (known as Cravath) is an American white-shoe law firm with its headquarters in New York City, and an additional office in London. The firm is known for its complex and high profile litigation and mergers & acquisitions ...

and was a member of the Faculty of Law at Columbia University, where she taught contracts, civil procedure, and commercial law. Kaden has a B.A. from Cornell University, an M.A. from the University of Chicago, where she was a Danforth Fellow, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. She served as a law clerk to Judge

Marvin E. Frankel Marvin Earle Frankel (July 26, 1920 – March 3, 2002) was a litigator, a United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, a professor at Columbia Law School, and ...

of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Kaden was general counsel for CBS during the Wigand

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scandal, and pressured

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to kill the story in fear of tortious interference. She was the inspiration for the character Helen Caperelli, played by Gina Gershon, in the film the ''Insider''All the corporations' men
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Campbell Soup Company - Executive Team – Ellen Oran Kaden
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