How To Build Your In-House Career
Build your in-house career by taking advantage of opportunities presented to you. There are a myriad that will come your way.
Being a Lawyer
Do Lawyers Make Simple Things Difficult?
Make simple things difficult? Lawyers? Pshaw!!! Well it is true, we can and often do take something simple and turn it into something far more difficult.
5 Essential Skills In-House Counsel Need for the Future
The skills in-house counsel need are changing. What once sufficed in private practice is no longer enough in the in-house world as rapid change, increased business demands, distributed workforces, global regulatory pressures and the pandemic…
How In-House Lawyers Can Reduce Stress
Lawyers can reduce stress if they have the tools to do so and are committed to improving their well-being. Fortunately, Sterling Miller has released another installment in his Ten Things series that can help guide…
Why Can’t The Legal Function Prove Its Value?
The legal function is oft-derided, and for many good reasons that have stood the test of time. But with the advent of digital transformation, which is affecting all industries, legal services are being reverse-engineered by…
How to Stop Writing Like a Lawyer
Are you guilty of writing like a lawyer? Check out this recent post at Attorney at Work – and the other suggested articles that follow it: “Of all the unexpected gifts from our respective law schools…
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…
The Difference Between In-House and Law Firm Life
Hear from Edward Paulis, Zurich North America vice president and assistant general counsel, on the difference between in-house and law firm life: “‘When I was in private practice, I did not and could not fathom the…
Strategies to Ease Work Overload
Is work overload making you feel stressed out? You are not alone and there are strategies that can help – read on at the ABAJournal: “Work demands are becoming more intense in an age when…