In the movie “Wall Street,” slick stockbroker Bud Fox (played by Charlie Sheen) enters an elite restaurant and requests “a table for one.” He is unceremoniously ushered out by the matre de. “Reservations only, sir. We are booked for two weeks.”

For in-house counsel in small legal departments, it’s easy to feel that we “dine alone,” and that we sometimes can’t get a table because they are all taken up with larger groups.