A Former Law Firm Attorney Dissects The In-House “Meeting”

Law firms, for a variety of reasons (including the much-maligned hourly billing paradigm), are remarkably free of meetings, says Mark Herrmann, chief litigation counsel and compliance officer at insurance giant Aon and former law firm attorney. That is in contrast, he says, to the corporation, where there are meetings aplenty, and they divide neatly into four distinct types. Number one is genuinely useful. Numbers two and three are understandable and you probably have to live with them. Number four, he says, should be retired.