Follow your Feelings The legal professionals here at Zuidas are often conservative, risk-evasive and not flexible enough. “A little less would be nice,” says Terry Verheij, one of the partners at Voxius. Voxius arranges the recruitment, selection for perman...

PHILADELPHIA — The lesson today — the ins and outs of closing a deal — seems lifted from Corporate Lawyering 101. “How do you get a merger done?” asks Scott B. Connolly, an attorney. There is silence from three well-dressed people in th...

Corporate legal advisors have little courtroom experience and most people feel courtrooms are out of bounds for everyone but lawyers. Even legal advisors who practice law also, never see much action in court. Many legal advisors and many lawyers seeking to become legal ...

Many of the legal advisors and lawyers, who were broken in by law firms, are applying to us in order to pursue their career in the business world. Their motives are manifold. For example: no longer wanting to put in 60 to 70 hours a week or no longer wanting to work for...

There are always pitfalls and snags to be kept in mind, when making your career as a corporate legal advisor. Naturally, you need to be a good legal advisor without becoming a legal maniac, you have to be a team player without attending meeting after meeting (your cases...

Richard Susskind, UK professor and author of books like ‘The End of Lawyers?’, will be pleased now the commodity thinking he praised finally seems to be taking root in the legal community. Especially when, for the sake of argument you take into consideration...