Ten Things: Best Blogs (and Other Media) for In-House Lawyers (2024 Edition)
December 2024
Hello everyone and season’s greetings from Dallas, Texas! I would like to wish you all a terrific holiday season and all the best for 2025. If you are looking for some fun in January (22-24) …
Ten Things: Things You Can (and Should) Delegate
December 2024
I have written a lot about delegation, both in the blog and in my last two books, Showing the Value of the Legal Department and The Productive In-House Lawyer …
Ten Things: I Am On Two Podcasts This Month – How The Hell Did That Happen?!
November 2024
It has been a fun month or so for me because I had the true pleasure of appearing on two of the best podcasts for in-house lawyers. The first is “The Legal Department” hosted …
Ten Things: Solving Problems (It’s Different In-House)
October 2024
One of the reasons I wanted to become a lawyer was to solve problems. The added bonus was the expectation that someone would pay me (a lot) to read and write …
Ten Things: Cool Tech for In-House Counsel (2024 Edition)
September 2024
Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of “Ten Things You Need to Know as In-House Counsel!” This is one of my favorite posts of the year because …
Ten Things: An Index to All the Posts (November 2014 to August 2024)
August 2024
Hello, my friends and welcome to a special edition of “Ten Things You Need to Know as In-House Counsel!” I get a lot of emails and comments about the blog …
Ten Things: How to Develop “Good Judgment” – What In-House Lawyers Need to Know (and Do)
July 2024
Hello again my friends. Now that the new book on productivity is finally available to buy, I have had a bit more time to go back through the “Ten Things” mailbag …
Ten Things: The Newest and Bestest Book on Productivity For In-House Lawyers is Out!
June 2024
The wait is over! Well, maybe just for me. It took a while, but my sixth book, “Productivity for In-House Lawyers: Tips, Hacks, and the Art of Getting Things Done” …
Ten Things: How to Create a Strategic Plan for the Legal Department
May 2024
Running an in-house legal department is not an easy job, regardless of whether you are a legal department of one or a legal department of 200. To start, there is never enough …
Ten Things: What to Do When You Don’t Know the Answer
April 2024
Everyone likes to know the answer to questions that come their way at work, none more so than in-house lawyers. Lawyers take special pride in being able to respond …
Ten Things: Bankruptcy Basics for In-House Counsel
March 2024
One of my favorite pastimes(?) is watching the behemoth that is the US economy. I have been fascinated by it since my Intro to Economics class in college way back …
Ten Things: Creating a “Not-to-Do” List (Learning How to Say No)
February 2024
Hello again everyone! I am very excited to report to you that my next book (number six) is in the hands of the publisher and should be out by this summer …
Ten Things: Essential Issues for In-House Counsel (2024 Edition)
January 2024
Hello again everyone and welcome to 2024! If you are a long-time reader of the blog, you know that I start the new year with a list of issues I believe in-house lawyers …
