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Corporate Counsel

Quality Development Programs Are Key to Legal Staff Retention

The legal job market remains competitive and one third of in-house legal staff are actively looking for new roles outside of their current organization. Fortunately, general counsel and Heads of Legal Operations have the means to retain lawyers without breaking the department budget.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Why Legal Departments That Thrive—Like Microsoft's—Never Stop Succession Planning

"For every one of my leads, I have a succession plan," Microsoft Chief Legal Officer Hossein Nowbar said. "And I specifically asked them to identify who they think is going to be potentially their replacement for their role."
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Summer Associate 101: Focus on Knowledge of Self, Setting

You want to know how to make the most of your summer program. I endeavor to answer that question by focusing on two domains: knowledge of self, and knowledge of setting
5 minute read

Law.com

The Perfect Storm: Why Contract Hiring In Privacy Will Eclipse Direct Hiring

As the job market no longer produces the same volume of direct hire fully remote opportunities, job seekers in privacy are more readily considering working contract and contract-to-hire to maintain fully remote employment.
15 minute read

Daily Business Review

The Great COVID Divide: Becoming an Attorney Before and After the Pandemic

Our occupations are a reflection of self and personal journeys and tell others a great deal about who we each are and what the employer/client can expect from us. When weighing what to expect from this generation of legal advocates, that journey has been particularly unique.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

GC Searches Veer Away From Internal Hires, Upending In-House Promotion Tracks

Succeeding as general counsel now requires a much broader range of skills, "making the step up for internal candidates from deputy to GC a much bigger gap to bridge," a report from the executive search firm Russell Reynolds Associates says.
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

Nurturing the Next Generation: Professional Development in the Legal Sphere

By embracing lifelong learning, ethical leadership, and technological innovation, young lawyers can navigate the complexities of the legal landscape and make meaningful contributions.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Young Lawyers (Gen Z) Are Getting Tons of New Business—the Old-Fashioned Way

I went on a mission recently to find out if, and then how, lawyers in their late 20s and 30s were building books of business. So, I hunted down some lawyers from both coasts who had been referred to me by their firms as folks who had built impressive books of business.
8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Confessions of a First-Time Law School Adjunct

"I entered the experience excited and left feeling that it had exceeded my already high expectations," writes Superior Court Judge David M. Dugan.
11 minute read

International Edition

Linklaters Matches Freshfields By Raising NQ Salaries to £150,000

The move puts the firm ahead of rivals Clifford Chance and A&O Shearman.
2 minute read

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