In-House Counsel

64% of Law Departments Have or Will Implement Rate Freezes, Survey Says

By Debra Cassens Weiss

Nov 20, 2009, 09:30 am CST

Companies are trying to cut their legal budgets, and it’s affecting in-house lawyers whose salaries are frozen and outside law firms asked to reduce rates and offer alternatives to hourly rates.

Alternative fees have been touted as the up-and-coming way to reduce outside legal costs. But law departments are trying… full story