Help is Available for Lawyers with Addiction Issues
Help is available to lawyers with addiction issues. If you need help or know someone who does, seek it out: Lawyers have a tough job to do, and some try to alleviate the stress with…
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Personal development plans for in-house counsel
Yet another insightful piece from LeadingInhouse – it’s time to work on your personal development plan: You’ve had your annual performance review, so now what? It’s time to work on your personal development plan, for those…
Misconduct Troubles Don’t Always Result in Ethics Sanctions for GCs
General counsel who lost their jobs based on misconduct allegations don’t necessarily run into trouble with state disciplinary authorities. That’s the conclusion of Corporate Counsel, which examined the cases of three former top corporate lawyers….
In House Patent Counsel Job Openings are Booming
In house patent counsel job openings are booming. With the increasing importance of intellectual property as an offensive and defensive weapon, and the advent of patent trolls, it’s no surprise that law departments are looking…
Law Departments and The On-Boarding Process
Law departments, you better have a solid on-boarding process for new in-house hires as Mark Hermann points out at his recent InsideStraight column over at AboveTheLaw. [via: Inside Straight: The On-Boarding Process at Above The…
Legal Jobs are Hard to Find?
An employment website has bad news for unemployed lawyers. According to data from, legal jobs are hard to find. But they’re not, actually.