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 The person who proves best at this behaviour over a sustained period of time gets to be [[general counsel]].
-Inhouse counsel are different from normal lawyers: more work-shy, less heroic about the number of hours, on the bounce, they can remain engaged in utter tedium without collapsing and being stretchered out. But then, without the time and attendance yardstick, the sole dimension of sustained concentration when gripped in the jaws of boredom and confusion is no great advantage.
+Inhouse counsel are different from normal lawyers: more work-shy, less heroic about the number of hours, on the bounce, they can remain engaged in catatonic [[tedium]] without being stretchered out. But then, without the [[time and attendance]] yardstick, the sole dimension of sustained concentration when gripped in the jaws of [[boredom]] and confusion is no great advantage.
-=== Inhouse counsel and the difficult subject of [[value]] ===
+=== The difficult subject of [[value]] ===
-In this and many other ways their incentives are inverted. Where a [[private practice lawyer]] is a [[profit centre]] — one that profits from ''discord'': the more of it, and the longer it takes to untangle, the better — an inhouse lawyer resolutely is ''not''. Inhouse counsel don’t generate revenue: they can’t — they are not ''allowed'' to. They ''cost'' revenue. This is not just by coincidence: the [[legal department]] is by its very ''[[ontology]]'' a [[cost centre]].
+In this and many other ways their incentives are inverted. Where a [[private practice lawyer]] is a [[profit centre]] — one who profits from ''discord'': the more of it, and the longer it takes to untangle, the better — an inhouse lawyer resolutely is ''not''. Inhouse counsel don’t generate revenue: they can’t — they are not ''allowed'' to. They ''cost'' revenue. This is not just by coincidence: the [[legal department]] is by its very ''[[ontology]]'' a [[cost centre]].
 This does not stop giddy [[general counsel]], [[from time to time]], alighting on the idea that perhaps they might like to ''be'' a [[profit centre]].
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+*[[Time and attendance]]
-* [[Time and attendance]]
 *[[Inhouse legal team of the year]]
 *[[Circle of escalation]]