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Note: This post was originally published on Law360; follow author Mike Lipps on Twitter: @LexisMike It’s common to believe that resources are needed to nurture creative thinking to develop new opportunities. It’s the opposite that’s true, however counterintuitive:...
Month: July 2014
Five Ways to Jeopardize a Corporate Legal Project
Note: This post was originally written by Mike Haysley. There are clearly ways corporate legal staff can build influence in a corporate legal department, but it is equally important, to avoid factors that can undermine your efforts. These pitfalls will not only...
How Corporate Legal Can Implement AFAs without FUD
Alternative fee arrangements (AFA) sometimes invoked FUD – or fear, uncertainty and doubt. There’s always risk in trying something new or different, however, we have in among our corporate legal department clients a sizable volume that have found success. Recently,...
Power of Lists: 51 Twitter Handles for Legal Pros to Follow
A little while ago, LexBlog founder Kevin O’Keefe gave us a compliment in a post titled Two legal companies doing Twitter the right away. While we can’t attest to whether or not we’re doing it the “right away” as Mr. O’Keefe said, we do work at it and just like the...
Infographic Friday: Job Prospects Brighten for Lawyers
It’s been a long hard slog for jobs in the legal sector, especially for newly minted lawyers. There have, however, been indications that the opportunities are ticking up. The optimism makes it a good fit for this week’s Friday Share series. Jacob Gershman, penning a...
3 Tips for more Effectively Managing Legal Spending
The general counsel needed a report. The corporate legal department had spent more than $20 million on external legal fees in the previous year, and he needed to know how much of that was spent specifically on litigation, where it was spent, and why. He tasked Mary...
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