«It's just not caught on, the admirable notion of
evaluating outside law firms,» writes Rees Morrison.
It would also be of interest to corporate counsel seeking to benchmark or
evaluate outside law firms.
Not exact matches
For corporate counsel and
law firm partners wanting to
evaluate the credentials of other lawyers and make a decision about which
outside counsel to retain, 84 percent said that Martindale - Hubbell and either important or very important to the decision.
Clearly, when
outside counsel start to
evaluate law performance and effectiveness,
firms that use technology effectively will come out ahead.»
One legal department is looking to the future with plans for a
law firm scorecard and an objective means of
evaluating outside counsel, according to a legal operations manager at a biopharmaceutical company.
In
evaluating different approaches to non — lawyer ownership, the Commission expressly rejected «(a) publicly traded
law firms, (b) passive,
outside non — lawyer investment or ownership in
law firms, and (c) multidisciplinary practices (i.e.,
law firms that offer both legal and non — legal services separately in a single entity).»