10 Tips For A New General Counsel
Advice for lawyers who are new to the top in-house job.
Advice for lawyers who are new to the top in-house job.
Companies are increasingly moving the general counsel directly into business decision-making and eroding those lines between legal and executive management.
Legal work isn’t slowing down, and the firms that win won’t be the ones working harder — they’ll be the ones working smarter.
Are corporate counsel jobs more prestigious than they used to be? Yes, argues in-house columnist Mark Herrmann -- and it's about time.
Good publicity is nice, and so are quantifiable goals for in-house lawyers. But what does a corporation need from its law department at a more mundane level?