Get Commodity Work Done by Biglaw on the Cheap
Does your outside counsel shun commodity work? If they do, there are certainly other large law firms who have figured out a way to do it – and do it cost-efficiently: “In a recent survey,…
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Survey: Corporations Looking to Reduce Outside Legal Spending
Just in time for the holidays, a survey indicates that corporations are looking to reduce outside legal spending. Look on the bright side, you will be busier but busy often brings with it more job…
Benefits of Being an In-house Lawyer (Humor)
What are the benefits of being an in-house lawyer? Well, here are some examples – send us your links and tips to info@inhouseblog.com! You don’t have to follow this handy chart to find out when you…
Progressive GCs bring in revenue
If you are not helping your organization improve its bottom line, you may be lagging behind the curve: “The general counsel that are ‘ahead of their peers’ are investigating how their legal team can align…
What to Expect as a New GC
Paul Williams at MLA Global gives his thoughts, as well as those of two GC colleagues, on what a new GC should do when hitting the ground at an organization: “The switch from a non-GC…
Fundamentals Of Bad In-House Jobs
No, this isn’t the title of a CLE webinar gone wrong. Biglaw partner turned senior in-house lawyer Mark Herrmann gives some thoughts on bad in-house jobs over at ATL: “I recently had lunch with a…
Second Thoughts on Winning the In-house Lottery
We’ve all read about how in-house life is the promised land, but as Stephen Seckler points out, working as an attorney for an organization comes with its own tradeoffs: “In the past 18 years, I…
Are Lawyers Getting Dumber?
Will the bar passage results this year help clear things up? “Last August, the tens of thousands of answer sheets from the bar exam started to stream into the National Conference of Bar Examiners. The…
NYTimes: Legal Profession a Brutal Environment
The Amazon workplace article at the New York Times has spawned articles on other professions – including life as a Biglaw lawyer. If one thing is for certain, people are much more worried about their…
The Simplest Steps to Beat Back Email
Until the robot apocalypse is complete, we’re still going to have to find ways to deal with more and more email: “Email use continues its upward climb. The Radicati Group recently reported that email use…