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Monday, November 2, 2009
Veterans of the legal services industry can attest that the law firm business model of billing clients on an hourly-fee basis for their services has been a hotly debated topic over the years. The debate raged in the early 1990s, when many observers foresaw a collapse of the law firm billing pyramid and a new era of compensation arrangements. In spite of...
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
As I wrote in this column last month, in-house legal departments are more pressed than ever to control legal costs, while at the same time they are being charged with assuming greater risk management responsibilities that come with increased government regulations and compliance workloads.
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Readers of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel will recall an article in last month's issue by my colleague, Marcus Linden, which explained how the era in which in-house law departments were somewhat insulated from the effects of economic cycles has officially passed. Legal chiefs today are more pressed than ever to control legal costs, a task made more...
