The Road Not Taken: What To Do When Work Is Too Intense
Sometimes work is too busy, life is too intense, and either your activities suffer or you suffer.
The Road Not Taken: End Of Year Feelings
There has to be at least one thing you can derive a benefit from in your workplace. Find it, pursue it, and benefit from it.
The Hidden Threat: How Fake Identities used by Remote Employees Put Your Business at Risk—and How to Defend Against This
Based on our experience in recent client matters, we have seen an escalating threat posed by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) information technology (IT) workers engaging in sophisticated schemes to evade US and UN sanctions, steal intellectual property from US companies, and/or inject ransomware into company IT environments, in support of enhancing North Korea’s illicit weapons program.
The Road Not Taken: Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder
If you are using a colleague’s absence to promote yourself, you are contributing to a culture of discouraging vacation, and in the end, that hurts you.
The Road Not Taken: Going Back To The Basics Of Negotiation
Sometimes in-house counsel need to go back to the basics, especially when they become frustrated with how their negotiations are progressing.
The Road Not Taken: Going Back To The Basics Of Negotiation
Sometimes in-house counsel need to go back to the basics, especially when they become frustrated with how their negotiations are progressing.
The Road Not Taken: Shark Tank
There’s no reason to start treating a former client as an adversary. Keep communications civil.
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The Road Not Taken: Margin Call
Your work at work is a constant, but the margin is where you can create your own joy.
The Road Not Taken: Enemy Of The Good Enough
Releasing imperfect work is something we all have to do and, for most of us, it is something we learn on the job.
The Road Not Taken: Uncultured Pearls
Once lawyers know how to improve the situation at work, we no longer have an excuse for tolerating the status quo.
The Road Not Taken: Can We Really Have It All?
Law does not have a reputation of being the sort of industry that inspires and motivates its participants, but it doesn’t have to be this way.
The Fifth-Year Dilemma: Do I Stay Or Do I Go (In-House)?
How to make the right decision, and why there might be another way to shape a fulfilling legal career on your own terms.
The Road Not Taken: Tailored To Fit
The minimum one can do is be aware of the importance of workplace culture. How much you can adapt without betraying your own authenticity?
The Road Not Taken: Law Means Never Having To Say You’re Sorry
As a lawyer -- and particularly, for in-house lawyers -- how can we use apologies?
The Road Not Taken: Can Lawyers Be ‘Originals’?
How can lawyers, with an obligation to zealously advocate for our clients, take a risk on Originals?
The Road Not Taken: Sell Me A Story (Part 2)
In-house columnist Celeste Harrison Forst gives tips on how to pitch your services to clients.
The Road Not Taken: Sell Me A Story (Part 1)
What's the best way to pitch your firm to an in-house client?