Deborah M. House, vice president and deputy general counsel of the Association of Corporate Counsel, has done her share of job hunting and hiring. She estimates she has pursued and been offered 10 jobs in her career — she has been rejected for three — and has hired 50 people from hundreds of candidates. So House feels she is in a strong position to offer advice to in-house lawyers who’ve been laid off or downsized in the current economic calamity and are looking for work.
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Predicting the Unpredictable Future of In-House Legal Teams
As the financial downturn grew in intensity through 2008, a number of high-profile general counsel took proactive steps in response to drive down costs, including renegotiating outside counsel fees. With the legal profession facing the most uncertain outlook for a generation, will in-house legal teams ride out the storm and drive innovations that prove their value in tough times? Or will the job losses continue to spread, causing a new round of cuts in-house?