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| | | | | | | | 6-2009
The More Things Change ...
Everyone seems to have transition on the brain these days. In the legal world, law firms are exploring new ways to cut costs by rethinking compensation models, hiring practices and fee arrangements. Corporate legal departments are bringing more work in-house, demanding more bang for their buck and reassessing their stable of firms they use as outside counsel. And freshly minted law school graduates are not following the same clear path to success that previous classes did.
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| | | | | | | | 3-2009
Take Advantage of Tough Times
In times like these, when the unemployment rate is climbing as quickly as your 401(k) value is plunging, you may find yourself thinking, "I'm lucky just to have a job." As more and more companies downsize or take measures to cut costs, that thought may quickly be followed by questions about how long the downturn will last and how you can work to keep your job.
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| | | | | | | | 11-2008
Satisfaction Guaranteed!
The end of the year is always a time of reflection and self-analysis. Its as natural a thing as the shortening of the days and the dropping of the temperatures for general counsel to begin pondering: How did I do this year? Did I achieve my goals? Did the company have a better year than last year?
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| | | | | | | | 6-2008
Going, Going...
This is our "Law Department Management" issue and it's chock-full of articles about building and running a law department. But I'm not going to write about those articles here, beyond saying that they are informative, well written and you should read them (because I'm the editor - at least at the time this issue went to print -- and I say so).
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| | | | | | | | 3-2008
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
I just finished reading Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy From the Inside Out by Marci Shimoff with Carol Kline (Free Press). I'm a bit of a personal growth junkie (did you think I only read legal books?) and Happy For No Reason drew my attention for a couple of reasons.
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| | | | | | | | 11-2007
The way you do the things you do...
More than a decade ago, in what seems like a different lifetime, I was a practicing attorney. Sometimes I like to say that I'm a recovering lawyer a phrase that either amuses or irritates other lawyers when I say it. And I guess that once a lawyer, always a lawyer whether you're doing a job that involves legal work or not.
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| | | | | | | | 9-2007
Can't Get No Satisfaction?
I hear the grumblings. The sniping. The complaints. I'm not talking about my kids' end-of-summer bickering, but another kind of sibling rivalry the one between corporate counsel and private law firm lawyers.
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| | | | | | | | 7-2007
Color Blinded
My first thought when she agreed to be interviewed for GC Mid-Atlantic was that Teresa Bryce would be a perfect cover GC for this, our diversity issue. Featuring Bryce, an accomplished African-American woman and the GC and corporate secretary of Philadelphia-based Radian Group, seemed like a no-brainer.
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| | | | | | | | 5-2007
Moving Forward, Looking Back
A year ago in this space, I admitted to sitting here at my desk, staring blankly at the computer screen and trying to figure out what to say to you. I had just started this job as editor and felt like I was standing at the bottom of an impossibly steep learning curve.
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| | | | | | | | 3-2007
Thinking Outside the Box
It's a common business catch-phrase these days. Although originally coined to mean discarding preconceptions and looking at an issue from a different or new perspective, the phrase has become shorthand for a combination of innovation, creativity, flexibility, perseverance and a willingness to take risks.
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| | | | | | | | 1-2007
Life in the Age of Information Technology
For my job, I read and edit many articles on a great variety of business- and law-related subjects. I know just enough to be dangerous luckily, only to myself. I'm an editor, not a GC, so the limitations on my knowledge probably won't hurt me.
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| | | | | | | | 11-2006
Politics, Religion and ...
Money. We're intensely curious about it. For many people, money is a measure perhaps the measure of success. And we all want to know: Who takes home the most at the end of the week?
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| | | | | | | | 9-2006
I Can't Get No Satisfaction...
It's two weeks before this issue of GC Mid-Atlantic goes to print, and I'm tearing my hair out. All of my writers have turned in their articles on deadline. All except one. The cover feature is still not written.
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