'Shoveling smoke' (re-named "Ins & Outs") is a regular column in the award-winning Docket magazine (produced by the Association of Corporate Counsel), on relations between in-house and outside counsel, legal department management and professional issues.
With over 26,000 members in more than 75 countries, the Washington-DC-based Association of Corporate Counsel is the world's largest representative association serving in-house corporate counsel.
iPad 2 - passing fad or laptop replacement? - is the iPad 2 mostly a media consumption device, or does it let you create, manipulate and distrubute work product seamlessly enough to ditch the laptop?
Ten quick ways to cut costs - need to cut the legal budget by 10 or 20%?
Lawyers as Gatekeepers - outside counsel more independent or better at intercepting wrongdoing than in-house counsel?
Are we Googling ourselves stupid? - are new skills destroying our ability to think?
RFPs & tenders - should we really? - what's the alternative?
Metrics that matter - 'satisfied' clients; loyal promoters or passive users?
Email disclaimers - the modern emperor's clothes?
Matter management 101 - enabling legal departments do more with less.
How do you motivate lawyers? - does cash - lots of it - drive lawyers?
10 golden rules of negotiation - 'rules' of corporate negotiation?
Offshoring - the dawn of international legal skills arbitrage?