Twenty Years of Experience in Ten Points™
I remember one of the first days as general counsel at a new company with a new team. At our first group meeting, I told them I wanted to give them some tips about how to best work with me and then laid out several things for them to consider. It was nothing unusual or […]
I was recently interviewed by LawVu Legal Leaders[1] for an article on the future of the legal department. In that article, I mention that it is time for legal departments to stop being the brake and start being the gas pedal. I have had a number of requests to expand on what I meant by […]
How to present legal issues to the board of directors.
One of my most recent books is on productivity for in-house lawyers.[1] Ironically, the book is over 400 pages long so it may not be the most productive use of your time to meander through it looking to pick up a useful nugget or two. At 400 pages it does make for excellent protection against […]
My grandfather had a pretty corny sense of humor (which my daughters tell me is genetic… and potentially fatal). One of his favorite jokes was telling six-year-old me and my five-year-old brother that his basset hound kept elephants away from the house. We’d, of course, respond with, “There are no elephants in York, Nebraska, granddad.” […]
One of the hardest skills to develop as an in-house lawyer is knowing how to prioritize your work. It certainly was for me. In the in-house world, everything is urgent, and everything is important, and everyone needs their project done yesterday. We have all heard this “the sky is falling” plea from the business yet […]
Hello everyone and hello 2026! It’s time to kick off another year of “Ten Things You Need to Know as In-House Counsel.” For a number of years, I started January with my “essential issues” for in-house lawyers post, i.e., things I thought were important for in-house lawyers to watch out for over the upcoming year. […]
Hello everyone and welcome to the end of 2025. It’s been a jammed packed year for me and the blog. As usual, I like to end the year with my list of the best blogs, podcasts, and “other media” for in-house lawyers. And, no surprise, there is a lot of great content – and a […]
If it seems like it has been a while since I wrote a “Ten Things” post,[1] that’s because it has been! I have been out on the road for most of October and November speaking at conferences, off-sites, street corners, church pulpits, casinos, bus stations, or wherever they will have me. One thing I enjoy […]
Hello my friends and welcome to another edition of “Ten Things You Need to Know as In-House Counsel!” Every summer for the past ten years, I have written about “cool tech” for in-house lawyers. It is one of my favorite posts and over that time I have stumbled upon a number of great bits of […]