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Small Law: Transitioning from a Solo Act to a Duo
Read Todd Silberman's advice on learning to relate to and work with a new assistant.
Read Todd Silberman's advice on learning to relate to and work with a new assistant.
Ron Pol's most recent column examines potential client satisfaction survey issues.
During M&A transactions, the needs and concerns of the acquired company’s management team are often overlooked, causing discontent and slowing down the process. This article explains how the engagement of attorneys during the sale can keep things moving, and provides examples that the seller, buyer, and key executives should consider in order to keep everyone happy during the process.
To social psychologists, cognitive dissonance occurs when a person has two conflicting ideas or beliefs, neither of which she can easily set aside. So instead of disavowing one cognition, she creates a belief that satisfies both, no matter how absurd. As in-house attorneys, however, we are expected to offer objective counsel and guidance. Recognizing cognitive dissonance is necessary to do our job.
Read Laura Stein's first Chair's Message in ACC Docket on mentoring, grooming, and fostering good relationships in your in-house legal department.
While a corporate legal department may not be the ideal environment to foster a balance between work and life is it even possible to achieve? Here, the authors look at the obstacles standing in the way of in-house counsel attempting to strike that balance in order to find out if work/life balance is in fact possible to find or if it is merely a myth.
Read our interview with ACC Board Member, Gary Cohen, on his best practices and techniques for using the talent around us, both in-house and outside, and using the best legal practices of others.
Robert Half Legal's best career advice for surviving and even thriving at the upcoming holiday festivities.