Office Politics

Mind your manners and your paycheck.

When you think about it, is a deputized bear really weirder than keeping classified documents in a bathroom with two chandeliers?

Get ready to act interested in old war stories and laugh at jokes no matter how horrible they are.

If you're going to nag, says in-house columnist Mark Herrmann, then be sure to do it effectively.

If you cannot navigate office politics, you have virtually no chance of moving up in your organization.

We have all been guilty of it: lusting after the proverbial Iron Throne that is our boss’s office.

Columnist David Perla speaks with three law firm heads about different leadership models.

Conditions are unfortunately ripe for the already brutal legal profession to become even more brutal, according to columnist Gaston Kroub.

The more comfortable you can become with the realities of the potentially dangerous liaisons and roles of in-house counsel, the less frustrated you will be when your colleagues try to use you as a pawn in their own game.

Office politics: the much maligned nebulous description of human interaction and informal power dynamic prevalent at most workplaces.

How should lawyers divvy up credit for success and blame for mistakes? In-house columnist Susan Moon shares her views.

Location, location, location: in the world of Biglaw, where you sit matters. Anonymous Partner explains how.

Why does it suck to be the general counsel? In-house columnist Susan Moon counts the ways....

Do you need help leaving the office?

In-house columnist Mark Herrmann warns you against using three little words: "Are you sure?"

For a Biglaw partner, is there anything more humiliating than being stripped of a corner office?

I recently spent a week in Denver over two days (“ba dum bum”). The day I arrived, the temperature hit a record high of 80 degrees, and it snowed several inches the next evening. I was supposed to be attending (and enjoying) the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Annual Meeting, but instead, I was frantically trying […]