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Inside Track: In-House and Firm Lawyers At Odds On Mental Health. Plus, Compliance Officer Arrested.

Our Minds Over Matters coverage has in-house counsel and firm lawyers pondering their relationships and the stress they may cause. Also, another compliance officer is arrested in an alleged illegal opioid operation.
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Inside Track: How Pay Data Impacts GCs. Plus, Who's To Blame For Stress?

General counsel will see more work with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission now asking for pay data. Also, clients expecting around-the-clock work and immediate results is often behind firm attorneys' mental health deterioration.
7 minute read

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Inside Track: Farming Out Legal Operations. Plus, Former Nokia Lawyer Sues Company Over Alleged Discrimination.

Legal operations is growing in corporate legal departments and experts believe these opportunities may eventually be outsourced. Also, a former Nokia in-house lawyer filed suit last week claiming the gender and age discrimination she faced at the telecommunications company was so bad that she can no longer work.
6 minute read

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Inside Track: Legal Department of The Year! Plus, How Abortion Laws Can Impact Business.

Corporate Counsel recently revealed its best legal departments of the year while the abortion law in Georgia has entertainment in-house counsel thinking about how it could affect their businesses.
7 minute read

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In-House And Alone Abroad. Plus, Housing Prices Slow In-House Hiring.

In our Minds Over Matters coverage, in-house counsel and a psychologist explain on how relocating abroad could affect your mental health. Astronomical housing prices around Silicon Valley are discouraging employees in the legal industry to move there, which in turn is changing legal departments. Plus, a new report says companies are determined to lower legal spend in the next two years.
6 minute read

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Inside Track: Be Prepared For The Next Recession. Plus, Getting Rid Of Gender Bias.

A recent survey found 97% of general counsel feel another recession is in the near future but only 14% are prepared for it while female managers see more gender bias from subordinates. Also, Aramark chief compliance officer talks about how she found herself focusing on compliance after her time as a labor and employment litigator.
7 minute read

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Inside Track: Grow Your Career. Plus, Securities Suits Aren't Going Away.

Former Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell shares his lessons on how to grow an in-house counsel career while the increase in securities lawsuits can increase insurance costs for companies. Also, in-house legal departments look to reduce outside counsel spend by using technology.
6 minute read

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Inside Track: A Bill For Gig Economy GCs To Worry About. Plus, Controversy For A New GC.

California AB5 could force ride-hailing and delivery companies who take advantage of the gig economy to either reclassify their workers or change how they do business while the new general counsel of Florida A&M University faces controversy over the school's request to name an alleged rape victim in defense of a suit. Plus, cannabis industry general counsel and other stakeholders react to the recent CBD hearing in Washington.
7 minute read

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Inside Track: In-House Lawyers Are Making More. Plus, Don't Break Up Facebook

In-house salaries increased on average 4.4% from 2017 to 2018, according to a recent survey while Facebook's former general counsel and chief privacy officer says the law supports keeping the social media company intact.
6 minute read

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Inside Track: The Argument For Alternative Fee Arrangements. Plus, No Money For Artificial Intelligence.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries general counsel doesn't want to use alternative fee arrangements for outside counsel work, but an alternative fee analytics director at GlaxoSmithKline argues the practice is becoming more popular. Also, many legal departments are still not using artificial intelligence to reduce work, which could be due to many also saying there's no room to accommodate the costs for such tools in their budgets.
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