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Owning Up to a Mistake
Learn how to approach your superiors and properly explain the issues to them when you have made a mistake.
Learn how to approach your superiors and properly explain the issues to them when you have made a mistake.
Many successful CEOs have a background in athletics - are naturally competitive people attracted to sports or do sports ignite a drive in women?
This article, written by Robert Half Legal, provides insight on how succession planning will help keep your company afloat. Learn about talent trends, the benefits of succession planning, and how to really build a plan for when the workplace starts to change.
"Diversity" is often acknowledged as an important goal in building project or case teams, but there's little discussion about why it is desirable. Read this article from Robert Half Legal to learn why diversity creates a more productive project team.
This Top Ten sets forth ten questions that a company purchasing cloud services should ask the service provider when negotiating fees for a cloud services agreement.
Contract negotiations and modifications are common practice for in-house counsel. However, the question as to who can modify a contract and under what circumstances should always be clear. In this summary, learn more about the conditions in which this process is acceptable.
This article discusses knowledge management from the perspective of a lawyer in a large international company, the information is applicable to other companies and law firms of any size.
An overview of the requirements of in-house counsel. Includes brief biographies of the orientation's faculty, guide to the role of in-house counsel, review of the Reebok Rules, guide to risk analysis and management, and tips for managing the stresses of being in-house counsel.
An overview of contract review and negotiation policies as well as a sample contract review policy and procedure. Includes provisions regarding the contract review policy, considerations of prior contractual relationships, standard contracts, non-standard contracts and RFP's, and specific issues requiring review and approval.
In these tough economic times, actual or threatened corporate downsizing has forced in-house counsel to take stock of their careers as well as their future in general. Am I valuable enough to the organization to avoid the next layoff? Do I have the passion to take my in-house career to the next level? Or is my passion focused on something different? If so, how do I make the leap? This program seeks to provide a new perspective as in-house counsel look ahead to an uncertain future. After discussing how best to remain marketable in a down cycle, our panel of both former and current in-house counsel who have found other pursuits or undertaken new ventures will share unique insights on how to make sure you remain passion-powered!