DONALD J. BINGLE

With a title like that, I'd better spellcheck this blog ... More than a decade ago I spent about five years working in-house as a General Counsel of a high-growth restaurant owner and franchisor, instead of working at a law firm. There were lots of interesting things about my in-house experience--from an office environment made up entirely of cubicles, to the greater camaraderie and feeling of family as part of team building a business (fast), to stock options, to doing und

Tis the shopping season, which immediately precedes the giving season, so I suspect that many of you clicking onto this blog are expecting me to flog my own inventory or give you a list of gadgets (Kindles, Nooks, and pocket recorders), gewgaws (T-shirts with writerly references, brass brads for screenplay submissions, and fancy journals), and books (dictionaries, historical timelines, and ... is there another word for thesaurus?) to tuck in the mail or post under the tree fo