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The person who proves best at this behaviour over a sustained period of time gets to be [[general counsel]]. | 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 | 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. | ||
=== | === 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 | 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]]. | 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]] | *[[Inhouse legal team of the year]] | ||
*[[Circle of escalation]] | *[[Circle of escalation]] |