Comment by clucas

I was on the in-house legal team at a manufacturing company. You described my life. The push was always to reduce what we did down to something measurable. It's understandable, because they're manufacturing people and it's how they think, but that's very difficult to do for legal work.

I always argued that the value we provided may not be realized for years, when some clause we put in a contract prevented us from getting sued. We may not even know it had happened! Ultimately, for non-litigation legal work, your value as a lawyer is often in preventing bad things from happening. How do you measure that?