Author: Sterling Miller
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More and more employers are affording their employees the ability to work from home or “remotely” as it is sometimes called. Studies show pretty convincingly…
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I want to discuss a topic of growing importance to in-house legal departments around the globe: succession planning. It’s no secret that the population is…
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As you have probably noticed, there are more blogs than there are lawyers… okay, that’s a bit of an exaggeration but I think you get…
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Managing your relationship with outside counsel can be challenging. The good ones work hard to make it easy but, even so, there are times when…
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I published the first “Ten Things You Need to Know as In-House Counsel” blog about two years ago this month. It all began after my talking…
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A common tool used by businesses to develop strategy, refine plans, set goals, energize the team, enhance teamwork and cooperation is the offsite, i.e., where…
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If you have ever been involved in civil litigation in the USA as an in-house lawyer you know that it is expensive, intrusive, slow, and…
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In my last post I discussed how to “market” the Legal Department to the business. One of the items I mentioned was the need to…
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It sucks being a cost center. While a good General Counsel can argue all day long about how much value the legal department is adding to…
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It’s 5:30 a.m. and no one is up. You figure if you get up early you can get ahead of the emails and do some…