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In the old world, lawyers could get away with keeping things complex. Today, lawyers ought to make things simple. Your job as legal counsel is to scale contracts. Only simple contracts scale, complex ones don't.

Hiring the best legal counsel is frigging hard! How do you even start? What title do you give to your job? Where do you hunt? How do you test the candidate? What questions do you ask? Follow these 9 tips to increase your chances of recruiting the rare gem.

Landing a legal job at a tech company has become an increasingly harder feat to achieve. So how do you find the right company? How can you be sure the company will be a good fit? And how do you stand out from the crowd? Follow these 10 tips to increase your chances of landing your dream job. From the search all the way to the the interview.

Good contract lawyers herald clarity as their number one priority. So don't let uncertainty as to when the contract starts seep into your contract. Spell the full effective date out.

"End", "termination", "expiration"... There's too many ways to say that a contract is no more. Keep it simple with termination provisions and close deals faster.

It's tempting to want to reflect the potential gender of terms. Yet we shouldn't. Let's turn gender-specific clauses into their gender-neutral equivalents.

Contracts are read by people, not by academics. Remove jargon, achaisms, Latin words and antiquated language to improve readability and clarity of your contrats and close deals faster.

All around the world companies are reinventing the way they work on legal. The LegalOps Platform is emerging as a game-changing tool for the future of legal work.

This is the finale of a four-part series on how to become a super efficient legal counsel.

This is the third leg of a four-part series on how to become a super efficient legal counsel.

This is the second leg of a four-part series on how to become a super efficient legal counsel.

As lawyers we are not trained to be efficient. This is partly because of law firm economics. In a world of billable hours, working more means earning more. But when you work in-house, that paradigm changes. Working more means spending more.

Last year I quit my job as a business lawyer to become an in-house lawyer. Why?