Going In-House: Making The Transition From BigLaw

By Jocelyn Allison

Law360, New York (August 06, 2009, 8:42 PM ET) -- As the job market at law firms gets tighter, many attorneys are looking to move in-house. But to succeed, they need to learn to offer quick solutions to real-time problems, keep their door open and ditch the legalese, according to experts.

“When you're inside a law firm, most clients think twice or at least one-and-a-half times before they pick up a phone to call a lawyer,” said David Lebor, general counsel at Philadelphia real estate developer Dranoff Properties. “When you're in-house, nobody thinks twice about coming...
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