While overall demand for legal services is increasing, the share of corporate legal department spend going to large law firms is declining. The recent Great Recession redefined the approach corporate counsel employ in allocating legal spend. Corporate legal departments got innovative by necessity—finding high value in specialty law firms, bringing more work in-house, and by …
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Is doing more with less keeping you up at night?
The legal landscape continues to be filled with challenges impacting corporate counsels’ role as legal advisor as much as their responsibility to best manage limited resources. In addition to practicing law, corporate legal departments must manage a budget, staff, use of technology, outside counsel spend and non-law firm legal services, such as legal process outsourcing …
- December 4, 2014
- Jeff McCoy
