Hello everyone and greetings from 35,000 feet!  I am on the road again – my third trip in April.  I think I have spent more days sleeping in hotel rooms than I have at home this month.  I am not complaining at all, but I do spend a lot of time on the road.  And that got me thinking about all the things that have gone wrong over many years of hard travel.  It’s a lot.  But, like many of my blog topics, I screwed up and then learned the lesson.  The same is true with traveling.  I know not all in-house lawyers travel a lot, but they do travel.  And it is always better to be over-prepared than to get smacked upside the head by the cold, hard, fickle hand of Fate (she is indeed a tough mistress who enjoys smacking people upside the head).  I was going to write about mentoring programs, but (as I sit here on the plane) I decided this was a more interesting topic – at least to me.[1]  So, instead of mentoring tips, I am going to pass along some tips I learned (the hard way) over many years so you can travel better. I am writing this with the assumption you will carry on your luggage vs. checking a bag.  First tip: Never check a bag unless you have no choice.[2] See how easy that was?  But brace yourself, as there is more.  A lot more.  This edition of “Ten Things” sets out my top travel tips for the busy in-house lawyer:

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