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Top Ten Tips for Succeeding In-House

As legal podcasters we have interviewed dozens of in-house attorneys and other experts about in-house careers. Here are the top ten insights from guests on our respective podcasts, The Legal Department and The Portia Project Podcast®, on how to succeed in-house:
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Corporate Counsel

Financial Firms Hit With Another $470M in 'Off-Channel' Communications Fines

The 3-year-old crackdown now has yielded more than $3 billion in penalties, and regulators show no signs of letting up.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

2024 GC Pay Report: $20M Club Shrinks, but Not Average Compensation

Netflix was an outlier in revamping its pay practices in a year when robust stock market returns left investors disinclined to second guess boards.
12 minute read

Corporate Counsel

2024 GC Pay Report: The Full List, From No. 1 to No. 526

In a quirk that's unlikely to be repeated, one legal chief from Big Tech tops the rankings and another lands at the very bottom.
1 minute read

Corporate Counsel

More CEOs May Unleash Buyout Offers, Creating Hornet's Nest of Challenges for Boards

23andMe set up an independent board committee and hired legal and financial advisers to work with it after CEO Anne Wojcicki offered to take the company private.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Microsoft-Backed Startup Hires Blockchain Guru as First Legal Chief

"Being part of a team that's pushing the boundaries of decentralized tech, and shaping the legal strategies that support this innovation, is incredibly rewarding."
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Ex-Binance General Counsel Takes Legal Reins of Rival Crypto Exchange

Hon Ng departed Binance a year ago, amid news reports that executives were unhappy with how the CEO was handling a Department of Justice money-laundering investigation. It later settled with the DOJ for $4 billion.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Longtime Lawyer Lands Front Man Role in Hard Rock's Legal Dept.

Frank Chesky continued to climb the ladder after joining Hard Rock in 2017 to help open the company's Atlantic City casino.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Tyson Veteran to Succeed Target's Don Liu as Legal Chief

Amy Tu is taking the reins of a retail goliath with 415,000 workers and annual sales of $107 billion.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Chasing Goals Won't Give Frazzled In-House Lawyers Inner Peace, But a 'Mental Cleanse' Might

"Happiness can be consciously cultivated through certain actions anyone can take which are not at all dependent upon your external circumstances," said Mark LoSacco, a former in-house leader at HSBC and American Express who now helps legal department attorneys find greater fulfillment.
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