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BTG 1 | Influence And Network

Building A Powerful Network And Expanding Your Influence: Stephen Chu Of InStride

  When it comes to building a powerful network and expanding your influence as a legal leader, few people embody that journey better than Stephen ...
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Don’t Reinvent the Wheel

As a very junior associate at Milbank, I was given an assignment at 6 PM to mark up a 50-page agreement by the next morning. ...
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The Importance of Mentors

Weather matters. And so does finding a great mentor. I moved to Los Angeles for a 2L summer job at Milbank and returned to California ...
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Don’t Panic – Things Are Rarely As Bad As They Seem

I remember my first visit to California.  I was interviewing for a 2L summer position.  I knew from the minute I arrived that this place ...
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This Is An Awesome Day

SpaceX Falcon9 launched this morning – 21 Starlink satellites going into low-Earth orbit! This is a photo from our back yard. We also saw the ...
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No News Is Not Necessarily Good News

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 ...
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35 Lessons from 35 Years (in 35 posts)

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, ...
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Ready to Break Free from Mediocrity?

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

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 ...
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Tips to Control Overwhelm for General Counsel

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 ...
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Radiology Partners’ CLO: Creating a Sharper Legal Image

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 ...
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Joe Schohl podcast

Podcast with Joe Schohl: 7 Things I Did To Become A General Counsel

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 ...
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