Compromise with Legal?
Check out “Compromise With Legal” by Tom Fishburne. A cartoonist with a large following who touches on issues that face businesses.
Legal Humor
Your Outside Counsel – Where Does Their Time Go?
The tension between in-house legal departments and their outside counsel can sometimes be palpable. Find our where their billable time goes!
The Most Successful People Get The Best Return on Luck
How is your Return on Luck (ROL) these days? You may not be paying attention to fortuitous events and opportunities that can propel your working life forward faster you can imagine.
Lawyer With Lost Pants Suspended For $67 Million Lawsuit
A lawyer with lost pants has been suspended for 90 days for his $67 million dollar lawsuit against his dry cleaner. The suspension apparently concludes a saga that goes back well over 10 years. We…
Lawyers as Artisans
Lawyers as artisans – is there even a question? Of course we are. Who else can craft 8 pages of dense “Miscellaneous” provisions? We have our own style guide for the sake of Pete –…
Company Says Customer Breached Their Contract by Dying
If a company tells you that you breached their contract by dying, you may still be alive, an immortal or receiving mail past the Pearly Gates. “The BBC reports that a woman in the UK…
Lawyers Procrastinate for Over an Hour a Day
But accountants procrastinate significantly more! Another arrow in the quiver to use against the bean-counters: “From chatting, surfing the web and engaging in social media, lawyers are prone to a bout of procrastination every day….
Text Messages May Form a Binding Contract
For all in-house counsel conducting contract negotiations via SMS, WhatsApp or SnapChat, be forewarned – your text messages may form a binding contract: “Last month, in St. John’s Holdings, LLC v. Two Electronics, LLC (No. 16…
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…
IP: Chicken sandwich can’t be copyrighted
Patent trolls, open source, drones and AI – hot areas in intellectual property law – and oh yeah, the chicken sandwich: “A ham sandwich, as popular lore has it, may well be indictable. But a…