In-House Market

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  Job of the Week (In-House): Venture Startup Consulting Company in New York

  by Lateral Link

  Firm Confidential – Register here to find out. Location New York, USA Job Description We are working with the venture startup advisory arm of a …

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  Job of the Week: General Counsel for Tech Company in Silicon Valley

  by Sako Adajian

  Company Confidential – Register here to find out. Location Silicon Valley Job Description We are working with a Silicon Valley technology company on a search for a …

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  A Conversation with Elena Kagan: How to Approach and Nail Your In-House Interview

  by Sarah Morris

  Earlier this week I heard Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan give a talk at Berkeley Law  where she offered career advice to lawyers and law …

• Why In-House Legal Departments Should Use More Contract Attorneys

  by Monique Burt Williams

  Corporations will do well to strategically utilize the first-tier contract attorneys increasingly at their disposal. Highly skilled attorneys trained by the most distinguished law firms are increasingly looking to shift their skill set into the gig economy, guided by a desire for the flexibility and control that was lacking during…

• Temporary Attorneys The New Go-To Route for In-House?

  by Sako Adajian

  In recent years, something that corporations have begun to adopt is converting fixed costs to variable – a key managerial economics concept. Because labor is often the biggest line item on the P&L, a variable workforce is the fundamental component of this shift. Companies ranging from startups to Fortune 500s…

• Top Earning General Counsel

  by Andrew Wood

• The Big Data Revolution

  by Lateral Link

  New developments in data collection and software architecture have revolutionized a myriad of industries by allowing them to perform data analysis on large data sets. Of course, law is infamous for eschewing quantitative metrics that have been long entrenched in most industries. This conservative approach has discouraged third parties from…

• Oh Canada! Lateral Moves To And From Our Northern Neighbors

  by Lateral Link

  The notion of Canadian trained attorneys practicing in the U.S. is nothing new. Both the legal education and training attorneys receive in Canada is highly regarded and respected by American firms. In the current competitive market for scarce talent, many firms are opening even more doors to Canadian attorneys, recognizing…

• How In-House Counsel Are Raising The Bar For Law Firm Diversity

  by Lateral Link

  Law firms have increasingly prioritized what we can all agree is an important goal: meaningful improvement in the diversity of their ranks. Beyond the positive human and workplace impetus behind this push, firms are experiencing a growing trend of externalpressure to increase parity through all levels of hiring and promotion.…

• When Should You Be 'In The Market'?

  by Lateral Link

  When I initially approach an attorney (especially those in the New York market who are bombarded by hundreds of recruiter calls), I frequently get a terse response: “Thanks for thinking of me, but I am not in the market.”That is the wrong response.As a career professional, you not only have…