This author discusses the career of Darwin Smith, who eventually became CEO of Kimberly-Clark.
This Wisdom of the Crowd, compiled from questions and responses posted on the Small Law Departments eGroups, addresses possible activities to play with kids on Take Your Child To Work Day.
Get your pencils ready and don't be shy, because this program is not a panel of speakers telling you how to draft and negotiate a contract. Instead, you’ll get hands on experience with your peers on drafting those challenging provisions facing in-house counsel. Additionally, through interactive discussions, you will share and learn from your colleagues best practices on how a legal department can become a better facilitator in the contracting process within your organization.
Gain the know-how and skills to climb that ladder! Join us for lunch on Monday to discuss the findings of ACC's 2013 CLO Survey and learn how you can use these findings to advance your own career. The conversation will include a snapshot of GCs today, what's most important to them, what's keeping them up at night, and what you can garner from this information to provide yourself with the experiences and skills necessary to be a successful GC of the future. Join the discussion and get a jump on your career.
Building on the skills you learned in Financial Decision Making for Lawyers – Part I, this session will further advance your ability to practically apply financial decision making practices to your everyday work. Participants will utilize the analytical tools that indicate whether a new project will create value, such as: Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Payback Period, and Economic Value Added (EVA).
This session and the workshop that follows will examine the external and internal factors that affect the longer-term profitability of the organization. Participants will understand the balance sheet, the income statement, and the statement of cash flow. We will also discuss how to identify red flags that signal financial difficulties or accounting problems.
41 percent of executives said trying to balance work and personal responsibilities is the greatest source of workplace stress. Office politics or conflicts with coworkers was cited by 28 percent of respondents. This article considers the best ways to manage pressure and stress in the workplace.
This report presents results on a subset of respondents from the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Chief Legal Officer (CLO) 2013 Survey, published in January 2013. A total of 1,104 individuals from 36 countries participated in this survey to provide a global outlook of CLOs worldwide. This report provides results and analysis of respondents from Canada (n=50) as well as demographic information, such as staffing, budget changes, revenue and more, while also exploring intangibles such as CCLOs’ top legal and business concerns for the past 12 months and their anticipations for the future.
The author discusses how her yoga practice informs her perspective throughout the day.
The author takes a whimsical approach to corporate meetings, comparing them to high school prom. Find out to which clique the in-house lawyers belong?