Hello everyone and welcome to the end of 2025.  It’s been a jammed packed year for me and the blog.  As usual, I like to end the year with my list of the best blogs, podcasts, and “other media” for in-house lawyers.  And, no surprise, there is a lot of great content – and a…

Hello my friends and welcome to another edition of “Ten Things You Need to Know as In-House Counsel!”  Every summer for the past ten years, I have written about “cool tech” for in-house lawyers.  It is one of my favorite posts and over that time I have stumbled upon a number of great bits of…

Hello again everyone.  I have been working on my annual “cool tech” post, but it’s not ready for prime time as I am still sifting through things.  The amount of tech out there (cool or otherwise) is amazing.  And since I want to give you my best recommendations, I am going to work on it…

I was cleaning out some old files in a filing cabinet (yes, that’s still a thing) and I came across some plastic cards we had made up when I was head of litigation at a large technology company many moons ago.  My team and I created the cards to help the business focus on key…

I have been practicing law for a long time.  And even now, 30+ years into the game, there are still times when I find myself overwhelmed by everything on my plate.  And it’s just as shitty a feeling now as it was as a young associate at a big law firm or as general counsel…

Over the course of 2024 and the first part of 2025, the questions I get most frequently from in-house lawyers are about Generative AI and how legal departments can use it to improve productivity.  There is a lot of pressure from the C-Suite on legal departments to adopt AI and show meaningful productivity gains.  While…

Hello again everyone!  As I have done for the past several years, I want to share a list of issues I believe in-house lawyers should pay attention to over the coming 12 months.  I started doing this when I first became a general counsel way back when Julius Caesar took 23 stabs to the body…