By their very nature, hiring plans are fluid and subject to change. But you can’t alter your plan if you don’t have one to change. The art is being flexible while staying the course. Let’s start from the beginning. The … [more]
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Know Your Legal Hiring Plan and Create a Proven Communication Strategy
We often see situations where a legal team becomes insular and/or isolated from the larger management team. This can happen for a number of reasons, and the outcomes are generally not successful. Therefore, securing a buy-in from the senior management … [more]
Establish a Comprehensive, Long-Term Vision for Your Legal Team
Long-term vision may have different definitions for different companies, but here are some statistics to frame the conversation: The interview process in America has grown by 3.3 to 3.7 days since 2009. “Today it stands at 22.9 days on average.” (Source: Glassdoor) Eight months is the … [more]
General Counsel, What Makes an Effective Mentor?
A legal mentor is a seasoned and experienced lawyer who has navigated the intricacies of the law in a variety of settings, in-house as a legal leader, in a law firm as the leader of a practice group, as the … [more]
How GCs Can Build a Legal Department Poised for the Future
The kinds of opportunities and uncertainties facing companies today are as challenging as any in modern history. As you may know, executive teams must always thoroughly analyze – and revisit – their priorities and goals and identify ways to optimize … [more]
How Are Salary Wars and Remote Work Impacting In-House Recruiting?
The world of Big Law is a competitive one, and that competition sometimes results in firms trying to “one-up” each other on associate pay. This summer is another example of that periodic phenomenon. Recently we have seen firm after … [more]
Tackling the Budget-Workload Conundrum as We Move Out of the Covid Crisis
At the end of last year, when Covid was still a prominent factor on the minds of all corporations, many companies decreased the size of their legal department budgets. It was a move that was designed to deal with the … [more]
Managing Your Legal Team Remotely
It has been over a year, and few people have returned to their office desks. The city that never slept, New York City, once characterized by towering office buildings and an endless bustle on the street, has transformed into a … [more]
Emerging Risks Facing GCs in 2021 – the Cybersecurity and “Cyberdemic” Era
Socrates once said: “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” Those wise words seem particularly appropriate in today’s digital age. Indeed, the digitizing of all our … [more]
Is Your Legal Department Aware of an “Innovation Gap?” Here’s What You Can Do About It
When it comes to technology and analytics, the legal industry tends to lag behind those in the business world. Whether it is comfort with tradition or the fact that lawyers are trained to look backwards for precedent rather than seeing … [more]
