Well, here we are at the end of another year. I hope all of you are having a wonderful holiday season. As usual, I like to take a few minutes every December to reflect back on the year and take
Back in January, I gave my list of essential issues for in-house counsel to pay attention to in 2021. One of the items I listed was “phishing.” Unfortunately, I was right to highlight it. Phishing has been a hot topic
As you know, I enjoy getting suggestions for blog topics from you – the readers of the “Ten Things” blog. A few weeks ago I received a note from the general counsel of a small legal department at a relatively
Last month, my good friend, Jane McBride, and I presented a CLE to the Texas Bar in-house counsel section on how to “take advantage of opportunity.” I, of course, had my list of ten things and Jane (as an
It’s August and that means three things: it’s very hot here in Texas, the Nebraska Cornhuskers have already lost a football game, and it’s time for my annual “Cool Tech” for in-house counsel blog post. As you can imagine, I
As you know, I love to get emails and LinkedIn messages from “Ten Things” readers. In particular, when they have ideas for blog topics! Not too long ago, I received a request from someone who was about to take her
I have been drafting contracts for a long time and I have written about them a lot in this blog, including posts on boilerplate clauses, how to create a contract playbook, and how to read a contract.
Throughout my legal career, I have been pretty fortunate when it comes to good health, both physically and mentally. I have a knack for managing deadlines and have always been able to crank out work pretty much as needed. Still,
I’ll start this post by saying it is both awesome and (somewhat) dispiriting to have to follow the last “Ten Things” blog post, i.e., Talia Jarvis’ guest post on what you need to know as a woman in-house lawyer.
In seven years of writing this blog, I have turned down all offers of a guest post. Nothing personal, I have always wanted “Ten Things” to just be my thoughts. Today, I make an exception. Why? Because I think this