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Last week the GC/VP of Sun Microsystems Mike Dillon came for a Q&A as part of an event my student group hosted. He was fantastic, and he has a (Sun-endorsed) blog! Here's an excerpt from a post I particularly enjoyed on recommendations for life as in-house counsel: Always be the calmest person in the room. Too often attorneys inflame a stressful business situation, rather than providing calm and dispassionate counsel. In this regard, a quote

as a new general counsel. I keep a copy of that article handy and regularly recommend it to lawyers beginning their in-house careers. Sun’s GC Mike Dillon recently posted his own updated list of ten rules to help guide in-house attorneys in Life is Different In-House. Not surprisingly, several of them mention using new technology that can help us to connect, collaborate, and be more efficient.  I say not surprisingly because sixteen years ago email was still a new thing. One of our primary law firms actually

as a new general counsel. I keep a copy of that article handy and regularly recommend it to lawyers beginning their in-house careers. Sun’s GC Mike Dillon recently posted his own updated list of ten rules to help guide in-house attorneys in Life is Different In-House. Not surprisingly, several of them mention using new technology that can help us to connect, collaborate, and be more efficient.  I say not surprisingly because sixteen years ago email was still a new thing. One of our primary law firms actually

a number of ways that practicing in-house is different than in a firm

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"Life is different in-house." He observes that there are "[vast] differences between what it takes to be a successful lawyer in a law firm versus as part of an in-house legal department" and emphasizes the need for an in-house counsel to be a business partner.

But before you start exploring the in-house option, you may want to ask yourself if you have what it takes to succeed as a corporate counsel. As Sun Microsystems general counsel and blogger Mike Dillon writes, life is different in-house. To excel, you must act like a business person first and lawyer second, collaborate and work as part of a team and provide calm, dispassionate counsel rather than resorting to a lawyer's instinct to inflame a stressful situation.

But before you start exploring the in-house option, you may want to ask yourself if you have what it takes to succeed as a corporate counsel. As Sun Microsystems general counsel and blogger Mike Dillon writes, life is different in-house. To excel, you must act like a business person first and lawyer second, collaborate and work as part of a team and provide calm, dispassionate counsel rather than resorting to a lawyer's instinct to inflame a stressful situation.

of them tech-related, of course. But what I find really interesting about his blog is that you get the sense that he considers his role in the company to be that of a businessman first, and a lawyer second. On that score, look at his post from Monday: Life is Different In-House. In it he lists the 10 rules he believes all in-house counsel should follow to be successful. The first rule is -- "You are a business person." Now nowhere in his 10 rules does he say anything about billable hours or alternative fees, the subject of

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