Business Law

This work offers a step-by-step guide on how to utilize the law as a source of value in organizations. Robert C. Bird demonstrates how legal knowledge can be a valuable asset for firms, providing them with a sustainable competitive advantage that is difficult for rivals to imitate. Bird presents a five-part framework that outlines how firms can use legal knowledge in competitive markets and how they can avoid misusing it. Chapters also highlight how firms can cultivate legal knowledge and apply novel risk tools to overcome unexpected legal threats. The book emphasizes the importance of ethical values in business decisions and shows how managers and lawyers can build an ethical practice of legal knowledge that benefits both business and society. With the help of numerous visuals, this book makes it easy for readers to leverage legal knowledge and apply it to specific business contexts.

A complete guide through the maze of potential job-hunting strategies, dispelling the myths about corporate life, and offering the reader an arsenal of tips, skills, and methods for creating a successful corporate career.

A compilation of the best blog posts about life as an in-house counsel--dealing with the lawyers and law firms he throws business to, dealing with the management of his company, dealing with communications and writing issues and more.

With his clear, humorous, and practical style, Sterling Miller takes you on a journey to explore how you can enhance and increase your productivity for yourself and the legal department. Inside the covers, he lays out lessons, advice, and practical tips on lawyer productivity based on a 30-plus-year legal career and almost 25 years spent in-house at four different legal departments. If your goal is to truly work smarter (and not harder), to get more done in the time you have, and to enhance the value of yourself and the legal team as productivity superstars, then this book is the go-to source for every legal department and a "must-have" on the shelf of every in-house lawyer anywhere in the world. The Productive In-House Lawyer: Tips, Hacks, and the Art of Getting Things Done sets out, in great detail, a practical path to enhance and increase your productivity, for yourself and for the legal department as a whole, including: The good and bad of to-do lists Slaying the email monster Escaping meeting hell How to delegate properly Setting priorities The power of checklists How to focus your efforts properly Learning to say yes (and when to say no) The productive power of "little things" The promise (and pitfalls) of ChaptGPT and Generative AI How taking care of yourself--and your team--boosts productivity