So you’ve done the hard part -- had a million Zoom interviews, crushed the take-home test, wowed the executives and landed that dream job running the Commercial Legal team of a fast-growing company. Now what? How do you set yourself up for success in the months and years to come? 1) Take Stock of Volume It may be just you right now, or you may have inherited a team, but no matter what the circumstances are -- do your future self a favor and set up some basic processes that wi

One of the biggest challenges that most team leaders are facing these days is -- how to sustain team morale and engagement in this new distributed environment. The risk of employee burnout or feeling disengaged and unmotivated is something that almost every manager is concerned about.  Not having as many touch points into a team member’s day to day makes it even more challenging to diagnose this problem. We all know that micromanagement and dialing up the frequency of meeting

Most legal professionals shopping for workflow and document management solutions want a system that can do it all -- in-take and manage requests, handle redlines, maintain clause libraries, track approvals, e-sign, store contracts, pull in data from Salesforce, the list goes on. However, few can stomach the long implementation cycles and hefty price tags that come with such a solution. Moreover, the implementation effort requires intense cross-functional input from your team

Much of the adrenalin-accompanied frenzy that many of us dealt with during the first couple of months of the pandemic has now given way to a sense of uncertainty and unease around what the new normal will look like at work. By now you've probably seen an influx of emails about changing policies and shifting company priorities in response to that uncertainty. Over the last few months, we've had to adapt to an ever-changing world. If you've read any news article over the course