So for those of you just beginning to develop your client skills, and others who are making calls on client - management matters, here are five things in -
house counsel want you to know... but would never say to your face.
In -
house counsel want to be evaluated on a scale defined by business metrics, and outside counsel want to be evaluated on a scale defined by legal success.
Almost every single corporate client I work with today is either using Office 365 or Gsuite on the backend and in -
house counsel want to know how they can utilize the e-discovery tools built into those platforms.
The law firms who believe in -
house counsel want to see them with marble tables and cappuccinos made to order are really fooling themselves,» said Veta Richardson, president and CEO of the Association of Corporate Counsel.
If in -
house counsel wants to discuss how to properly adopt an enforceable agreement for either arbitration or a bench trial for all company employees, or to obtain sample documents, please contact Mandelbaum Salsburg by visiting International Society of Primerus Law Firms or www.msgld.com.
Symonds concedes that there is an element of in -
house counsel wanting to have their cake and eat it.
Not exact matches
I tell them that they don't have the experience to charge a startup $ 200,000, and even if they did no early - stage startup would
want to bring on an in -
house general
counsel very early.
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Officials have said that Trump
wanted Mueller fired last June, but White
House counsel Don McGahn talked him out of it.
President Donald Trump
wanted to fire special
counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating whether his campaign colluded with Russian officials in the election, last June, but didn't after the White
House counsel threatened to quit.
It took her ten years, during which she joined the DNC's Women's Leadership Forum, worked on Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign, served as special
counsel to then — HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo, and took another law job, before Gillibrand found the upstate
House district in which she
wanted to run... against a four - term incumbent for a seat that hadn't been held by a Democrat in 30 years and where Republicans outnumbered Democrats almost two to one.
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Related: Rees Morrison has a tip for in -
house counsel who
want to tackle law - firm billing.
That in -
house counsel is then the one who makes the application to the business's interests; he or she has a much better grasp regarding what the C - level employees need or
want to hear.
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She adds that the in -
house counsel she works with clearly «
want their law firms to operate more like businesses and deliver their services more efficiently and cost effectively.»
Just this weekend, former White
House legal
counsel John Dean observed in an interview with the Boston Globe that the reason for government secrecy is often that «you don't
want people to know what you're doing.»
If they
want to expand their sphere of influence, make themselves more valuable, and make more money, in -
house counsel need to approach their work more like business people and a little less like lawyers.
For law firms who
want to continue to increase their global footprint, and for corporate in -
house general
counsel deployed in overseas markets, the execution risks of business roll - out are many and varied.
You'd
want to consider that the Supreme Court of the Netherlands ruled (see here and here)-- after the Akzos case — that legal privilege does in fact generally exist for in -
house counsel under Dutch law.
«The in -
house lawyers are telling their outside
counsel that they don't
want a war; they
want a solution.»
«You could easily envisage getting to a stage where the only law firms you really
want to deal with, as in -
house counsel or general
counsel, are those who share a platform with you, or are prepared to use your platform so that your collaboration is supported by technology that is common between you and the law firm.»
Ari: [29:16] Joe, on that point, it was interesting, when we were doing the research, that 88 percent of the people, both in -
house counsels and law firm lawyers,
wanted to learn more about measuring and understanding the effectiveness of predictive coding.
The new ecosystem is giving buyers more options, and presents the opportunity to use technology - enabled services to meet client demands for cost - effective solutions, to unbundle services so clients get what they
want, and to increase collaboration among law firms, in -
house counsel and alternative legal services providers.
If you're in the content business and are concerned about copyright infringement, you might
want to build an in -
house legal team with a lot of depth and experience in copyright law and save outside
counsel for other one - off IP matters.
A report yesterday in Times Online cites a survey commissioned by the international law firm Lovells of 180 in -
house counsel in five European countries in which 29 percent identified the U.S. as the jurisdiction they most
wanted to avoid.
With plenty of experience behind you, what advice would you give future potential lawyers
wanting to begin a career of in -
house legal
counsel?
As well, the Canadian Corporate
Counsel Association has recently formed a pro bono committee that will be looking at issues such as insurance requirements for in -
house lawyers who
want to do pro bono.
We
want to know, for example, what are the top three things in -
house counsel would
want to see this transition year program address.»
Rather, in this short article I
want to discuss why the statement of principles is important for all licensees and in -
house counsel, and what such a statement can look like.
You see, outside litigation
counsel really
want to please in -
house counsel.
We act as in -
house counsel for clients who don't
want to worry about protecting their intellectual property.
According to the blog report, more than half of in -
house counsel believe law firms either don't
want to, or, simply can't change.
«Lawyers within firms, in -
house counsel, legal support, and managers across the sector
want to know how to innovate and use technology effectively, so they can deliver services more efficiently, for lower fees, and to better meet the needs of their clients.
A Chicago law firm that specializes in corporate law
wants to reach all in -
house general
counsel at companies with offices in Illinois.
Finally, if you do not
want to invest four years into an MBA program but still wish to obtain a fundamental background in business specifically tailored to your legal background, you can look at program offerings such as the Rotmans - CCCA Business Leadership Program for In -
house Counsel.
There was even a session where in -
house counsel from such companies as Microsoft, Exelon, and Sanofi, offered their opinions on what they
wanted from their law firms.
Case in point is a panel I sat in on recently called Foolproof RFPs to Get the Legal Services You
Want, held at the Association of Corporate
Counsel annual meeting in Washington D.C. featuring two Canadian in - house counsel, a law firm partner from Gowlings (Canada) WLG and a California - based associate general c
Counsel annual meeting in Washington D.C. featuring two Canadian in -
house counsel, a law firm partner from Gowlings (Canada) WLG and a California - based associate general c
counsel, a law firm partner from Gowlings (Canada) WLG and a California - based associate general
counselcounsel.
Asked whether he had «to make a business case each time you
want to add a lawyer in -
house,» David Allgood, the now retired senior vice president and general
counsel for the Royal Bank of Canada told Canadian Lawyer InHouse: «We do a cost comparison to outside
counsel and tend to hire in the three - to - five - year range.
Careful boards will
want the concurrence of both, but because time is of the essence, the likelihood is that the recommendation of in -
house counsel, which has a better understanding of the firm's practices, the industry, the individuals, and organizations involved, will be given great weight.
With that kind of experience, it's understandable that a smart litigator (and often in -
house counsel) would
want a second pair of eyes focused on overall trial presentation, storytelling, persuading the fact - finder (s) and litigation graphics.
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Clio is the biggest name in practice management for firms, but SimpleLegal
wants to be the CRM for in -
house counsel to manage their practice and their relationships with outside
counsel.
What do you get when in -
house counsel who make retention decisions think they
want different, but, at the end of the day, really
want a vaguely «better» version of the same?
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