Anyone else cautious about making friends with non-lawyers at work? How do you balance the relationship?

Someone pinged me for a call today to ask about my thoughts on them joining a board position outside of our company, and I walked them through our COI policy and shared some guidance.

Turns out he just wanted to talk about it as a friend! I’m hesitant to give “friendly” advice when it could be construed as my legal blessing. Thoughts?

On H1-B with approved I-140, currently looking out for State & Local Tax Senior/New Manager opportunity. Kindly share the leads, thank you.

Anyone an EA at Citadel? Do you like it?

I did it! I got an in-house Paralegal position after years of working and being burned out at different law firms. I was going to leave the legal field all together because I was so burned out and depressed, but I decided to give the field one more chance if I was able to go in-house. Prayerfully, this transition will be a good one.

What to choose when you can’t have it all: high salary, healthy working environment, room for growth, love of the day-to-day work.

Hey all, new hire here! Going to receive a $250 wfh credit; any recs on what I should get to build out my home office?

Has anyone dealt with asbestos in their building? If so, are you legally required to tell the employees on site?

What you didn't know about engineering...

What did you think was cool when you were young, but isn't cool now?

Hi all,
I am tech guy with almost 3yr exp, but I want to switch to a Management role. Going for an MBA is not possible for me. I was wondering about the possibility to switch to a management role within the next 2 years without an MBA. Company/Brand is not a bar for me.
Can somebody please suggest how to do this?

Any recommendations on women’s watch (or mens watch with <36mm case size)? Style can be any as long as it’s automatic with a clear case back. Budget is ~$5000-$7000. TIA!

I have 2 offers. One in IQVIA as digital marketing manager and second as Product management - senior manager in Japfa comfeed India. IQVIA is paying slightly higher than Japfa.

I want to get into strategy - business in future for career progression. Which will be a better option to select?

Is the way to train managers changing? I’m familiar with a cohort model where a group of new managers meet in person, and then go through some classes together over a period of 2-6 months. Is there a better or new model that people are using?

Canadian copywriter looking to hop across the pond next year on T5/Youth Mobility Visa. What should I know in advance?

Coforge or IRIS for same package and same profile?

Hi,
I'm looking for Manual Testing remote opportunities. Having 3.3 years experience and immediate joiner.

Will Feb bar exams be converted to online?

How do you bill your time? The busier I am the harder it is to bill. How do people actually bill contemporaneously in detailed terms when you bill 12 hours but literally did 100 different things in those 12 hours. And it’s never slow enough to go back and do it super detailed.

are producer salaries trending up or down in 2022?

What’s the average for a senior consultant in the ESG sector?

Underrated tech companies to work for? E.g. not FAANG.

Any Amazon counsel or other FAANG attorneys willing to share how their comp review has worked? I’m really happy with my offer(lower base, really high signing bonus and decent RSUs) and was told their would be yearly comp reviews but wondering how that plays out the first few years...

Did anyone have an interview with Amazon for an ACC position? And know how long after the phone screen/hypo stage they contact you? It’s been two days, I’m thinking they are going to reject me if they are taking this long?

Would you say most in-house roles tend to hire from BigLaw?

What’s a fair expectation for my first raise? Publicly traded co with ~2500 employees. I’ve been doing litigation with the company for almost 3 yrs and have only had a 2% cost of living raise so far. Graduated in 2014. Base comp is $127.5k in the Philly area. I see salaries all over the place in this site and it’s hard to tell whether mine is competitive.

Has anyone heard of TechGC/DeputyGC? Thoughts on membership?

Has anyone moved from antitrust private practice to a non-antitrust in-house role? If so, what kind of role?

Anyone have insight on working in Patreon’s legal department?

Very specific to retail and/or hospitality in-house roles: has anyone found a good solution for predictive scheduling? Our retail division has one set of software for scheduling and one for payroll, and neither of them can handle predictive scheduling compliance issues unless they’re used for both the scheduling and payroll functions. I’m coming up empty on ideas for them to bridge the gap, but I’m also new to my compliance counsel role, so I would be overjoyed if anyone has suggestions.

Outside counsel has been prepping company witnesses for a trial in August. It is my subject area so I am supervising outside counsel. I did not, however, choose the counsel. He is doing a really awful job. Co counsel is better, but not great either. Higher ups love the firm… I do not want to micromanage, but I have genuine concerns about outside counsel’s ability to try this case. Trials are rare, and I just don’t think these guys have actually tried many cases. Cont. below…

I have one pro bono case that I kept when I left my firm to go in house. It’s a matter completely unrelated to my company and I have malpractice insurance through the nonprofit organization associated with the case. I’ve made clear to my client that I’m repping this client in my personal capacity. No one has asked me specifically about pro bono stuff at my company - if I know there’s no conflict of interest, is this something I should disclose? To whom should I disclose this?

Is it awkward to bring up the possibility of annual merit raise (usually done at end of year) with my boss now? It seems the job market is cooling a bit and I might lose some leverage if I wait longer to bring this up, in case the economy turns for the worse. But it being June now just makes timing a bit awkward and worried it might come off negatively/too self serving

What’s it like being a senior in-house corporate attorney in biotech or tech? Is the work interesting or is it mainly just reviewing contracts and admin/CYA work for biz folks?

A lot of people here seem to glamorize MANGA positions - good pay, and good WLB. There has to be a catch, right?

Should litigation come out of legal or the businesses budget? My understanding is business? Any thoughts here or advice…

Day of remote interviews at a tech co for in-house. 5 YOE. Planning on wearing a suit. Tie or no tie?

How did current in-house attorneys find their positions? I am currently in big law with 3 years of experience. Seems that most recruiters can only help me lateral to other big law firms.

Got a temp offer for less than a year without promise of turning into full-time. Wanted to know what ppl think about temp jobs (looks bad on resume if I don't turn full-time later within the company?) and what comp should look like (e.g. 1.2× of regular comp?).

Got another perm offer in a different industry for similar salary, but I might have to relocate and I'm concerned the work may involve translation instead of pure legal work.

Have any one used a resume coach or service for in house job search, particularly for IP and product counsel positions? If so, how did you find a good one? Thanks!