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| | | | | | | | 11-2007
Flight Risk
Minimizing The Risks of Employee Defection in Mergers and Acquisitions
Employees are jumping ship. We've got recruiters calling into our offices all day long. We're losing the value of this acquisition." This is the risk — and it happens all too often. A merger that looks good on paper loses value when employees in the target company get nervous about what life will be like after the deal closes. Will the culture be different? Is the acquiring firm too big? Too rigid? Will they understand how we do business?
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| | | | | | | | 7-2007
The Corporate Credentials Question
Is Your Department Complying With State Attorney Licensing Requirements?
Are all the in-house counsel in your legal department properly licensed in your state? Just as importantly, are you?
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| | | | | | | | 3-2007
Innovation: High-Tech Start-Up Plextronics Inc. Develops a Revolutionary Legal Team
The success of any entrepreneurial technology company requires two critical components: the development of the company's technology and the capital to fund operations. Either component alone is not enough, and technology start-ups need legal help on two different fronts – intellectual property development and protection, and raising money.
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| | | | | | | | 1-2007
Paving a New Road: Why Companies Hire Their First General Counsel
As the first general counsel of a start-up bio-medical company, Gary Arlen Smith had a challenging yet rewarding road ahead of him. "I would have the opportunity and excitement of building an organization from the ground up and creating something out of nothing," says Smith of his position at Tengion Inc., a leading regenerative medicine company in Pennsylvania. Smith joined Tengion in April 2005, shortly after the company was formed.
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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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| | | | | | | | 9-2006
Composing a Harmonious Relationship With Outside Counsel
In 1951, when they penned their now-famous musical The King & I, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein probably weren't thinking about corporate America or the often rocky relationships between general counsel and the firm lawyers that they hire.
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| | | | | | | | 9-2006
Everyday Workers
Law Departments Hire Contract Attorneys for Day-to-Day Tasks
Contract attorney: an extra pair of hands to help with litigation, due diligence or heavy document review. That used to be the definition. Law departments hired contract attorneys only for big, temporary projects that required extra bodies. But there's a new trend in contract work.
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