I’m in house (employment law) and handle day-to-day advice, related projects, and pre-litigation/arbitration matters. Once matters proceed to litigation, I no longer oversee them. I currently have 2 EEOC charges and 5 demand letters. It’s challenging handling all of this on top of everything else. Is this workload normal for those of you who also do employment? My company is pretty frugal when it comes to the outside counsel budget, so this is not a viable option for me.

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If you haven’t built a playbook yet, there’s no time like the present. It helps keep things uniform and streamlined, plus makes it easier to hand certain discrete tasks off to your department’s support staff/HR.

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So incredibly helpful - thank you!

That's completely normal - in fact, that seems relatively light.

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I didn’t include an exhaustive list of the work I do each day, but good to know that the current number of demands and charges are reasonable and expected for an in-house attorney. Thanks!

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