SmallLaw Vacation Policies
While the rest of you have spent the past three weeks sipping eggnog and draining champagne flutes, I’ve been on a mountain in Argentina — and it’s no...
When To Outsource
Once upon a time, I would have taken the Sidley Austin Word Processing Department back behind the bleachers and gotten it pregnant. To be able to drop...
Friends As Clients
When I was in Biglaw, I got to know a few people at the investment banks that were our primary clients, folks who were at the same spot on the bank to...
Competing with Clerky
One thing I never had to worry about in Biglaw was having a client compare me to a website. I can’t recall any investment bank or Fortune 500 company ...
What’s An Hour Worth?
I’ve always thought it was pretty cool that as attorneys our minds have been trained to the point where they can be billed out the same way a tiller o...