The annual Canadian Lawyer
Corporate Counsel Survey in this issue has a strong focus on alternative fee arrangements.
In fact, our annual Canadian Lawyer
Corporate Counsel Survey indicates 72.6 per cent of those who responded said they use the services of boutique law firms.
This year's
Corporate Counsel Survey also asked in - house counsel to indicate how they choose their external law firms.
Maybe it was the group of senior counsel speaking at the event, or perhaps it was because they're all American with a different point of view, but the results in this year's Canadian Lawyer annual
Corporate Counsel Survey are not quite as emphatic.
Our annual
corporate counsel survey gives much food for thought.
[/ a] In fact, 46.8 per cent of respondents to the annual Canadian Lawyer
Corporate Counsel Survey said the billable hour is still the main arrangement they have with their primary law firm, followed by a combination of billable hours and flat fees at 31 per cent.
The average return on investment from putting a matter management system in place is about 14.5 per cent, according to a 2010 Association of
Corporate Counsel survey.
The 2017 Association of
Corporate Counsel survey of Australia's in - house teams reveals that currently, 46 % of their external spend goes to «Global / Tier 1» firms.
In the Canadian Lawyer
Corporate Counsel Survey, published in the November / December 2008 issue, 92 per cent of the corporate counsel surveyed said their law firms had not asked them to complete a written satisfaction survey in the previous 12 months.
This year, 218 law department leaders from Canadian corporations and government participated in
the Corporate Counsel Survey.
These are some of the findings of the LexisNexis
Corporate Counsel Survey, which it conducted in October at the annual meeting of the Association of Corporate Counsel.
In this issue, we present our annual Canadian Lawyer
corporate counsel survey.
The 2014 Canadian Lawyer
Corporate Counsel Survey found a big drop in those using the billable hour as their primary arrangement — from 55.2 p
The 2014 Canadian Lawyer
Corporate Counsel Survey was released recently, and, for the first time, billable hours usage has dropped below 50 % in the Canadian legal industry.
Sheri Qualters reports in The National Law Journal on a new Association of
Corporate Counsel survey that finds 85 percent of chief legal officers find their careers to be rewarding.
Corporate counsel surveyed in anticipation of the meeting agreed that the civil justice system is «too complex» (55 %) and «too expensive» (97 %).
Not exact matches
The company's board of directors should conduct an independent review of the executives» actions, including
surveying their email traffic and interviewing the executives as well as their colleagues, said Bart Friedman, a senior
counsel at Cahill Gordon & Reindel, who advises boards on matters including
corporate compliance and enforcement challenges.
The 2012 In - House
Counsel Barometer
survey conducted by Angus Reid Public Opinion and sponsored by Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg was presented yesterday in Montreal during the Canadian
Corporate Counsel Association's national spring conference.
Salaries for the
corporate world's best - paid chief legal officers held steady last year, but the side benefits reached new heights, according to the 2006 GC Compensation Survey of Corporate Counsel
corporate world's best - paid chief legal officers held steady last year, but the side benefits reached new heights, according to the 2006 GC Compensation
Survey of
Corporate Counsel
Corporate Counsel magazine.
According to a comprehensive study by the U.S. - based Minority
Corporate Counsel Association, 71 per cent of white lawyers
surveyed felt they had adequate coaching and mentoring to be successful in achieving their career goals.
Mallory manages Canadian Lawyer's Top Regional Firms, Boutiques,
Corporate Counsel and Top 25 Most Influential
surveys and co-ordinates the magazine's online columnist contributions.
CCCA member services include career development tools (Continuing Legal Education programs, a Spring Conference and a World Summit) and a fleet of publications (CCCA Magazine, the In - House Barometer
Survey, the
Corporate Counsel Compensation & Benefits
Survey and the Ultimate
Corporate Counsel Guide).
As Amy Miller at
Corporate Counsel magazine writes, even the
survey's editor is not surprised by this.
The ambitious webinar hosted by Metropolitan
Corporate Counsel on September 7 took on four big topics that were filtered through
surveys primarily directed at legal operations departments.
Other recent reports and
survey by consultant / polling companies further show that U.S.
corporate counsel are paring down the number of outside
counsel used and are consolidating their outside
counsel into «hubs» which work together to provide services to the client corporation.
The
survey also contains a leaderboard of 22 law firms named by
corporate counsel as best at developing and delivering alternative fee arrangements.
«
Corporate counsel consistently rank Thompson Hine high in our general
counsel surveys, and client service is a consistent theme.»
The firm is recognized as a «Go - To Law Firm for Fortune 500 Companies» according to
Corporate Counsel magazine, a «Best Law Firm» according to U.S. News, a «Best at Client Focus» firm according to Fortune 1000 companies
surveyed by The BTI Consulting Group, one of the top intellectual property firms according to Fortune 100 companies
surveyed by IP Law & Business, and is listed on the Law360 Intellectual Property 100 List.
A recent
survey by Carlton Fields suggests that
corporate counsel expects, on average 5.4 suits per company in 2012.
A new
survey of
corporate legal departments concludes that Martindale - Hubbell is still the most prominent legal directory among
corporate counsel in terms of awareness, usage and perceived -LSB-...]
The
survey polled various people within
corporate legal departments, from general
counsel to staff attorneys to paralegals.
The majority of in - house lawyers have reservations about Deutsche Bank's plan to stop paying panel law firms for work carried out by junior lawyers, but believe the move is likely to start a trend, according to a new Legal Week
survey of
corporate counsel.
Even more interestingly, the
survey found that 40 percent of
corporate counsel and private practice attorneys expressed interest in an online professional network specifically for lawyers.
A new
survey of
corporate legal departments concludes that Martindale - Hubbell is still the most prominent legal directory among
corporate counsel in terms of awareness, usage and perceived helpfulness.
It should also be noted — and the
survey emphasizes this — that direct referrals and recommendations remain the leading way
corporate counsel find outside lawyers.
The nation's 100 best - paid chief legal officers saw their incomes increase an average of 9 percent in 2002, with the average combined salary and bonus surpassing $ 1 million, according to The 2003 GC Compensation
Survey conducted by
Corporate Counsel magazine.
In good times or bad, general
counsel compensation has tended to drift upward, notes the introduction to Corporate Counsel magazine's 2009 GC Compensation
counsel compensation has tended to drift upward, notes the introduction to
Corporate Counsel magazine's 2009 GC Compensation
Counsel magazine's 2009 GC Compensation
Survey.
That is the conclusion of this year's Who Represents America's Biggest Companies, the fifth annual
survey in which
Corporate Counsel magazine asks Fortune 250 general counsel to list their «primary» outside c
Counsel magazine asks Fortune 250 general
counsel to list their «primary» outside c
counsel to list their «primary» outside
counselcounsel.
My co-host J. Craig Williams and I interview Robin Sparkman, editor - in - chief of
Corporate Counsel magazine, about the results of the 2006 GC Compensation
Survey, charting the compensation of the nation's 100 best - paid chief legal officers.
ASIAN - MENA
COUNSEL has now completed the seventh annual «Representing
Corporate Asia & Middle East
Survey» of its 20,000 strong In - House Community across Asia and the Middle East.
For the fifth consecutive year, the Advice from
Counsel survey captures the top e-discovery trends for corporate counsel of Fortune 1000 com
Counsel survey captures the top e-discovery trends for
corporate counsel of Fortune 1000 com
counsel of Fortune 1000 companies.
Seventy percent of
corporate counsel erroneously say the rules require production of documents in their native file formats — 27 percent more than said that in the prior year's
survey.
The results — released to coincide with the one year anniversary of the revised rules — «bring to light how unprepared
corporate counsel attorneys felt they were when new amendments to the federal rules went into effect a year ago, and that challenges still exist,» said lawyer and LexisNexis Applied Discovery VP Courtney Barton in releasing the
survey.
This is borne out by a recent
survey conducted of
corporate counsel by Thompson Hines in March of 2018.
[5:31] In August of 2012, FTI issued the results of a
survey in which 24 leading
corporate and law firm
counsel executives were interviewed about the prospects for predictive coding.
In the
survey, the IADC asked 689 attorneys, about evenly split between
corporate counsel (386) and law firms (303), about shifts in legal spending, relationships, and motivations for hiring outside
counsel, among others.
Association of
Corporate Counsel (ACC)
surveys highlight year after year that lawyers don't return phone calls, that they are difficult to reach and unresponsive.
Released Thursday during a panel discussion in New York City on the future of the law firm business model, the LexisNexis - commissioned
survey (executive summary) found that 71 percent of
corporate counsel say that law firms are not doing enough to respond to the current financial pressures on their business model.
During his tenure at
Corporate Counsel, he initiated
surveys on legal process outsourcing and legal operations professionals, and he managed various high - profile projects such as the Best Legal Departments awards.
The awards, which
surveys senior
corporate counsel only, recognizes winners globally and honours both individuals and law firms for their contribution to the legal profession.