A former deputy head of the legal department defrauded the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi out of some $12 million (7.4 million in British pounds, at the current exchange rate) by conning…
Appointed to one of the most difficult jobs in the Obama administration, White House counsel Gregory Craig has stumbled, some say, on major matters such as the attempt to close…
In-house corporate counsel predict in a new survey that they will not be paying an increase in billing rates to outside law firms next year, a first in the survey’s…
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.
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