The good people at Laurence Simons, the global executive search firm, sent me data about compensation among Brazilian and other Latin American in-house lawyers. If you are interested in the entire PowerPoint, email Berta Papp. In mid-2010, the median base salary of 31 Brazilian Regional Directors and General Counsel was…
You are what you wear, sort of. One of the quick polls taken by the Law.com website devoted to in-house counsel gives a glimpse of what those lawyers who responded wear. The poll asked “Does your office have a dress code?” With no pretense at statistical reliability, the data, as…
ALM Legal Intelligence obtained 2009 data from 116 law departments. One of the questions must have asked about positions eliminated that year broken down by lawyers, paralegals, and support staff – both filled and vacant. The results appear in Corp. Counsel, Dec. 2010 at 85. The graphic doesn’t say whether…
The Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) has a wide following in corporate America. Many law departments have their members complete the instrument and purportedly make good use of personality preferences depicted on four dichotomies, such as extroversion-introversion. It is widely thought to tap something real and useful about the way…
On a panel last week I heard and relished the phrase “Aces in their Places.” Jeff Firestone, a Vice President in the UPS Law Department, invoked it while he described UPS’s continuing efforts to put the best lawyer for the job in the right location and set of responsibilities. A…
Whew! Quite a topic, so I will only make one comment. It follows reading about a study by the GAO of female managers which found that 74 percent of male managers were married but just 59 percent of female managers, “suggesting that women who worked their way to the top…
Sometimes confused, demographics does not equal diversity. As I understand it, demographics primarily has to do with differences between people because of their age. The generational divide in law departments, if such exists, has received little attention on this blog (See my post of Dec. 14, 2008: early summary of…
Merck’s former general counsel, Kenneth Frazier, will take over as CEO in 2011 reports the NY Times, Dec. 1, 2010, at B5. Frazier had actually moved out of the law department and served for the past couple of years as president of the company’s global human health unit. The article…
Nearly 2,000 in-house attorneys around the world completed a survey by Laurence Simons. From that 2010 In-House Global Salary & Benefits Survey at 12 we learn that almost 40 percent of them have 21-25 days of holiday per year and close to that many have 26-30 days. About 18 percent…
From the 2010 In-House Global Salary & Benefits Survey conducted by Laurence Simons (pg. 8) you can see 15 reasons why lawyers might resign. “[O]ver a third (40%) said it was because they wanted a new challenge or to further their career in a new environment. The traditionally popular motivation…