Humans just aren’t built to be happy, according to the Wall St. J., May 2, 2007 at D1. Evolutionists say we are built to survive and reproduce, with “the promise of happiness … just a trick to jolly us along.” Sociologists say our beliefs on happiness are personal codes that…
The New York City Bar Association collected data, as of March 2006, from 15 law departments that signed its Statement of Diversely Principles. Those law departments reported that 51 attorneys, or about 4.2% of their 1,200 attorneys, work flexibly in New York law offices. The report uses the term “flexible…
An article in the Harv. Bus. Rev., Vol. 85, March 2007 at 115, lays out a framework for human capital management (See my posts of May 11, 2007 with the first 9 practices and May 28, 2007 with the final 14; as well as June 10, 2007 on Leadership; and…
Robert Major, of legal search firm Major, Lindsey & Africa, makes you think with his article in Corp. Counsel, June 2007 at 69, on internal promotions. “When a company commits to performing a search for their next general counsel and there is an internal candidate, the odds are stacked strongly…
“Research suggests that men are more likely to prefer centralization and inequality than women; studies of social dominance orientation, for example, report that men endorse social inequality more than women. Men tend to support policies that favor social hierarchy, whereas women favor social equality and communality. Further, men tend to…
An article in the Harv. Bus. Rev., Vol. 85, March 2007 at 115, describes 23 human capital management practices in five broad categories (See my posts of May 11, 2007 with the first 9 practices and May 28, 2007 with the final 14; and June 10, 2007 on Leadership.). Here…
An article in the Harv. Bus. Rev., Vol. 85, March 2007 at 115, describes 23 human capital management practices in five broad categories (See my posts of May 11, 2007 with the first 9 practices and May 28, 2007 with the final 14.). With some bracketed text to orient these…
At a recent ALIC conference, Janet Gallo, associate general counsel of Acacia Life, gave attendees copies of her company’s policies on “flextime” and “compressed time.” Essentially, “core hours” are “the designated period during the normal workday during which associates [employees] are expected to be present” – typically 10:00 a.m. to…
For a recent ALIC conference, Michele Gallo, associate general counsel of Acacia Life, distributed some material she prepared about how to develop leaders in a law department. One slide, entitled “Vehicles for Development,” describes three ways in which in-house lawyers become more proficient. Gallo even estimates how much of their…
An item in Legal Week, Vol. 9, May 10, 2007 at 4, gives some data about the first-job expectations of law students in the UK. Note the juxtaposition of ideas from the Sweet & Maxwell survey findings: “Almost half of all law students expect to work more than 50 hours…