The Complete Lawyer

We’ve all had bad bosses - creepy, crawly, hair-raising, crazy - making ones. They come in all shapes and sizes: yellers, fumers, passive, aggressive, obsessive, oblivious, and egotistical. But have you ever considered that you might be a bad boss? Chances are, the answer is no. While working for a litigation support company, I once had a boss whose determination to improve the bottom-line was so single-minded and narrowly focused that he failed to realize the company was suffering as a ...

By “doing business” I mean either going to a foreign country on behalf of a client, or advising a client on some aspects of doing business in a foreign country, or both. Cultural issues There are many cultural issues one needs to be aware of in a professional/business context: The American approach to doing business is not the only way, and not necessarily the best way. Don’t go to a foreign country expecting to find the same contract drafting methods, the same ...