Not that long ago, the in-house legal department at DuPont Co. was implementing an efficiency strategy concerning outside counsel that called for the corporation to use a smaller number of…
The Securities and Exchange Commission has dropped its lawsuit against former McAfee general counsel Kent Roberts, acquitted in a criminal case based on parallel…
An AIG lawyer who was general counsel of the insurance company’s troubled financial products unit has offered to return his $6.4 million bonus, the largest amount handed out to company…
Law firms informing in-house counsel about planned fee increases aren’t being taken seriously, according to one corporate lawyer speaking at a conference last week.
Big law firms are being more careful with staff-wide memos these days. They ought to. Anything that might prove juicy if stuck with a fork is likely to be leaked—as…
Contrary to media reports suggesting widespread lawyer dissatisfaction, a new study of 4,160 individuals who became lawyers in 2000 has found that three out of four say they are either…
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