As lawyers change roles with increasing regularity, the word "career" seems to describe the speed and frequency of that change as well as it does a lawyer's lifetime course of employment. This article briefly addresses an organizational element affecting lawyers' opportunity for change: How the perceived "right" size of legal departments critically determines the expansion and contraction of available legal roles.
This Hands On is intended to help women answer typical career questions, explore themselves, think, and get onto the road to a better place..
This is the second of two columns lightheartedly assessing technologies, measurement tools, and outside counsel management techniques specifically for the people in legal departments.
A driving reason for our evolution from the American Corporate Counsel Association to the Association of Corporate Counsel was a desire to be more inclusive of our growing membership outside of the United States. This strategic move was designed to benefit all of our members, as more and more companies—regardless of their location—were engaging in cross-border and global operations. And over the past five years, ACC has diversified its resources and services to address these needs.
Where should you focus your attention during your first weeks as the new in-house attorney? Pay a house call to your Human Resources and Payroll Departments. Read more. . .
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This article is part two of a series on how to achieve corporate success from the perspective of Michael Shpizner, Vice President and General Counsel of Fujitsu America, Inc. In this article, he focuses on managing relationships through encouragement, accountability, and communication.
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Take an appropriate cone and slice through it continuously at an angle. What do you get? A curve. Choose one of three: An ellipse, a parabola, or a hyperbola—depending on how you angled your slice. These three curves are famously known as the conics, no doubt because of their quite conical origin. Read More . . .