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My first professional job was a 1L summer associate position at Winston & Strawn in Chicago (my hometown). I was beyond excited. Attending Columbia meant bearing not ...

Starting next week, I’ll be sharing a series of posts, with each one highlighting a lesson I learned from each year of my professional life, ...

💡 Did you know? The word mediocrity comes from the Greek root words meaning “halfway up the mountain.” For inside lawyers, this might sound all ...

Two months into my first General Counsel position, my company announced an acquisition that would double the size of the organization and vault it into ...

Being an in-house lawyer at a healthcare company is hard enough, let’s not make it even harder by failing to arrange our calendars for peak ...

Should you ever see a radiologist from Radiology Partners in action—say, reviewing an MRI on an injured knee or an abdominal CT scan from an ...

Joe Schohl set out to become a public company GC before turning 40. He wrote this goal on a piece of paper and carried it ...

by Joe Schohl I am setting new goals for the future. Not just new versions of old goals, but rather new types of goals. Ones ...

What a GC wants… When I was a GC, I found that most outside counsel could tell me what the law is. Many could even ...

Last month we had the opportunity as a sponsor to attend the IPMI Healthcare Law & Compliance Institute held at the Langham Hotel in Pasadena.  ...

Earlier in the year I sent a note to a group of parents with executive-level jobs with the following advice: “In these roles, the responsibilities ...

Being a general counsel has always been a difficult job. No easy problems make it to the GC’s desk. It’s hard for me to believe, ...