"Originally, I wrote two columns every week. And I wrote almost exclusively about life as an in-house lawyer or things I had learned in my previous life at a large firm. I wrote about " How to Drive Clients Nuts!" Once you come up with an idea, you might as well fill a few Mondays with it. So I also cranked out, " What Drives Partners Nuts!""
"I had started a blog when I was at a law firm. I wrote about blogging as a business development tool. Again, since I had nothing at stake, I could afford to be honest. (After I moved in-house, my co-blogger kept the experiment alive. He's still at it now, with help from others, 20 years after we started that puppy.)"
"In 2012, the company that I worked for moved its headquarters (and me) overseas to London. I reduced my writing schedule from two columns per week to one. When you live in London, weekends are made for Paris, not cranking out columns for Above the Law. After my move to the U.K., I poked fun at the Brits. I took a lot of grief for that one."
A veteran big-firm partner transitioned to an in-house role fifteen years ago and began a long-running series of legal commentary for an online platform. Early output consisted of two weekly pieces focused on in-house practice and lessons from large-firm experience, including practical tactics for managing clients, partners, and associates. Personal experience served as case studies and promoted blogging as a business-development tool. Relocation of the employer to London in 2012 reduced output frequency and introduced expatriate perspective and occasional cultural humor. Selected pieces were later compiled into a book that is now out of print.
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