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Companies want to be seen and heard in multimedia.  And while that may inspire corporate Twitter and Facebook accounts, they may have questions regarding liability implications of social media.  And that's where you come in, esteemed corporate counsel.  How do you advise your organization or company on creating a social media policy?

Here are some questions to help frame your discussion with the execs:

Is a written social media policy necessary? 

Would a policy be in response to an incident or questionable use of social media, or is it forward-looking, aimed to outline best practices for social media usage in a company setting or for employees.  You should consider how social media has been used in the past and the specific types of uses that could pose concern for the company.   Even if there is no immediate concern, it may still be useful to draft a simple plan to guide online engagement.

Letting go is hard to do.  And in an economy like the current one, layoffs have become a necessary evil--and even norm--for some companies.  Being the recipient of bad news can be devastating, but being the messenger carries its own exacting toll.  Companies are turning to in-house counsel to guide their executive and HR teams on how to conduct workforce reductions judiciously, expeditiously...and in accordance with state and federal law.

Read below on tips of how your legal department can effectively guide the company with workforce reduction and how to take preemptive steps to limit liability in the process.

Apparently, in house attorneys and law firm representatives spent a lot of time at a recent meeting pointing their fingers at each other over the issue of support for flex-time and part-time policies designed to retain and advance women at law firms, according to the National Law Journal.

What's worse, the Project for Attorney Retention (PAR), who organized the event, invited the attendees because it considered them leaders in the field.  Which begs the question: If the leaders don't know how to do flex- and part-time policies right, what chance does everyone else have?