Well the results are in and they may be surprising to those watching the legal industry. Forget high legal unemployment rates and soaring law school costs – parents want their kids to become lawyers: Mamas…
If you are looking at rankings and blended rates, you may not be evaluating the right criteria in your outside counsel. As the ABA Journal and BloombergLaw report in an interview with a prominent GC,…
TGIF! According to a recent piece at AboveTheLaw, the unhappiest job in America is exactly the one you’d expect. Head over to their site to see if your suspicions are correct. [Read: Unhappiest Job in…
“Churn that bill, baby!” … a phrase that you do not want to hear being exchanged in internal emails of your outside counsel: It all began with a corporate bankruptcy case. Retained by energy entrepreneur…
With the increasing advances of technology and a 24 hour work cycle, have you ever felt regret at your career? It’s not unusual, as you might imagine: “A tax lawyer who became chief financial officer…
Lawyer loses license – and must make restitution – for claims of having worked over 3,500 hours annually in multiple years: A sole practitioner who claimed to have worked well over 3,500 hours annually while…
How many psychopathic lawyers are in your law department? Are they all around you? Maybe it is time for an internal poll: CEOs and lawyers are among the professions with the most psychopaths—evidence that psychopathic…
Tips from ATL columnist Susan Moon on how to get the most out of law firm pitch meetings: What’s not to like about pitch meetings? In-house counsel get to give law firm partners homework, play…
AboveTheLaw offers some tips about writing an in-house counsel resume and cover letter. [Read: The In-House Counsel Resume and Cover Letter at Above The Law]
In-house counsel have increasingly become direct targets of state and federal enforcement agencies. One in-house lawyer, warning of the criminalization of law practice, warns that you should think twice before signing your name to the…