How To Stop Doing Your Coworkers’ Work For Them
No, there is not a flipped article that teaches you how to get your coworkers to do all of your work: “Have you ever found yourself in the middle of an activity at work that…
Careers
Inhouse Counsel Salaries – 2018 Guide
Robert Half Legal has released its latest report which contains data on projected inhouse counsel salaries for 2018. The report uses percentage tiers this year as a way to present in-house counsel salary data. For…
Avoid Sabotaging Your In-House Counsel Job Search
Kimberly Lerman, a Director in Major, Lindsey & Africa’s In-House Practice Group who specializes in placing attorneys in corporate legal departments in a wide range of industries, shares her thoughts on how lawyers can avoid…
LinkedIn Study Reveals Places With Highest Salaries
If you are looking for places with the highest salaries, you might also be looking for places with the highest cost of living: “It’s probably no surprise that where you live and what courses you…
Wanna Be A GC?
Segal Coaching provides 8 qualities of successful general counsel – solid reading if you want to someday reach the top spot. Tip of the hat to legal recruiter Lord, Gurman & Lewis for the link:…
How to Change People’s Minds
In-house counsel, like all attorneys, are often tasked with helping change people’s minds. Whether this is a counterparty in a transaction or an internal business counterpart, in-house counsel often have to persuade others to see…
Tattooed Lawyer Stuns Thousands With Shower Selfies and Underwear Shots
Summer may not be officially over, but most are back to work after “working from home” during August. Remember what we said about procrastinating? Well, this NSFW post at Legal Cheek may just encourage more. “A…
How Lawyers Can Network Intelligently
Amy Goldstein, founder of Grayson Allen, Inc., a New York based attorney search and career consulting firm, gives her words of advice on how lawyers can network intelligently: “Whether you are in the middle of…
What The Worst Resumes Have In Common, According to Recruiters
Recruiters see a lot, and often a lot of the same. Here is how to avoid having your resume end up in the worst resumes pile: “Recruiters know all too well that not all resumes…
Quinn Emanuel Creates Associate Longevity Bonus Pool
No, this is not some kind of macabre ERISA plan or a law firm associate Hunger Games, it is a way of enticing associates to stay with the firm for the long haul: “Quinn Emanuel…