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| | | | | | | | 3-2009
DELVACCA Named ACC's Large Chapter of the Year
After celebrating its 25th anniversary last year, the Delaware Valley Area Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel, or DELVACCA, has been named 2008 Large Chapter of the Year by the ACC.
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| | | | | | | | 3-2009
Building Better Business Skills
Enhancing Your Worth by Increasing Your Business Knowledge
Thinking about continuing education? In addition to updating your legal skills and substantive knowledge, give some thought to educating yourself in one key area you may not know enough about: business.
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| | | | | | | | 3-2009
When The Economy Gives You Lemons ... Prove Your Worth
It's hard to hear opportunity knocking when news of employment doom is blaring from almost every audible source, but there are viable prospects for upping the profile of the law department and its attorneys in these tense, taxing times.
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| | | | | | | | 3-2008
Better Yourself — It's Better for Your Client
Professional Development in Corporate Law Departments
Professional development doesn't just mean sitting through mandatory continuing legal education classes any more. As the practice of law continues to evolve and attorneys continue to fine-tune their practices, many lawyers seek professional development opportunities beyond the required hours of CLE, which can include anything from on-the-job training to career counseling, from mentoring to marketing seminars.
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| | | | | | | | 3-2008
Steel City Blues
Is There a Lack of In-House Legal Jobs in Pittsburgh?
When Pittsburgh attorney Doug Harhai was downsized out of a corporate counsel position last April, he decided to go out on his own, opening the Law Office of Douglas Harhai LLC, two months after he was laid off from Igate Mastech Inc., a subsidiary of Igate Corp. To Harhai, the decision to open a solo private practice was one that he had been contemplating for the last three years and, in the end, came down to one simple factor: A weak corporate environment has made it difficult for attorneys like him to find an in-house job in Pittsburgh.
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| | | | | | | | 11-2007
Virtual Reality
Corporate Counsel Learn Legal Technology at CCTI
While it may not be outfitted with swings, slides and rubber tires, the Corporate Counsel Technology Institute (CCTI), housed at Widener Law School in Wilmington, Delaware, is a technological playground for corporate counsel.
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| | | | | | | | 5-2007
Generation GC
Law Schools and Corporations Partner to Offer Corporate Internships and In-House Cooperative Programs
Summer associate programs and law student internships have long been traditional methods of training and recruiting the next class of newly minted lawyers.
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| | | | | | | | 5-2007
Outside In
Hiring Outside Counsel for In-house Positions
For many companies, it would seem like a natural progression. The company identifies the need for an in-house attorney — either its first or an additional lawyer for an existing law department — and looks to hire one of its outside counsel from a private law firm for the job.
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| | | | | | | | 5-2007
In a Class of Their Own
Professional Development and Continuing Legal Education Courses Designed Specifically for Corporate Counsel
Most attorneys in private firms regularly attend continuing legal education (CLE) courses — not only to meet state requirements to keep their licenses to practice current, but also to reap the substantial benefits these professional development courses offer to attorneys who practice law on a daily basis.
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| | | | | | | | 11-2006
Nixing the Nay-Sayer Syndrome
The Effective In-House Lawyer Knows How to Say No to a Client
My colleague Dan DiLucchio recently published an article in the June 2006 issue of Corporate Counsel, a sibling ALM publication, about the "go-to" in-house lawyer — a lawyer with whom corporate business executives want to work. A lawyer to whom they turn with confidence.
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