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What sets cutting-edge leaders apart? A commitment to growth—not just their own, but their team’s. This month, we had the privilege of delivering a live ...

When searching for a new job, there are two schools of thought. Be coy about your preferences to avoid conceding anything in the negotiation process. ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...