First came the ACC Value Challenge. Now the Association of Corporate Counsel is about to introduce a tool to help in-house legal departments better implement it.…
There is one bright spot for law firms in a survey of in-house counsel: More than 40 percent of the respondents expect to see more litigation next year.
A second law firm has been named as a defendant in an investor lawsuit contending that a now-former partner of Proskauer Rose, Thomas Sjoblom, participated in a claimed $7 billion…
Bank of America has agreed to reveal legal advice it obtained in its acquisition of Merrill Lynch, a move likely to put the spotlight on its outside law firm in…
Corporate spending on outside counsel is expected to continue to drop, but the decline likely won’t be as big as this year’s 10.8 percent reduction, a new study says.
Over the past 18 months, amidst a global financial crisis, Microsoft has cut its legal budget by 15 percent, laying off 5 percent of its in-house employees in order to…
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