Hoping to give in-house lawyers a powerful tool to assess outside legal help, the Association of Corporate Counsel has unveiled a Web site that grades law firms on how well they perform and whether they stay within budget.
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New Web site lets in-house counsel rate outside firms
November 13th, 2009 · No Comments · corporate counsel, in-house lawyers
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CEO can’t muzzle in-house lawyer
June 13th, 2008 · No Comments · 4th Circuit, Attorney-Client Privilege, corporate counsel
An in-house lawyer’s warning that he represented the company, not its employees or CEO, meant the CEO could not use the attorney-client privilege to keep the lawyer from testifying before a federal grand jury.
In an unpublished decision June 11 in U.S. v. Investment Properties of America LLC, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld [...]
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Benchmarks for the board room: corporate counsel metrics
October 24th, 2007 · No Comments · corporate counsel, in-house lawyers
“How’m I doing?” was former New York City Mayor Ed Koch’s trademark greeting to his constituents.
Lawyers may ask themselves the same question.
Lawyers who labor in a law firm often use the almighty billable hour as their primary measure of productivity.
But an attorney who works for a corporation may come at that billable-hour standard from the [...]
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