Sentences with phrase «paid by corporate counsel»

«Negotiations were held in confidence but it can be said that the CBA never conceded that it would discontinue its practice of retaining the large majority of the membership fees paid by corporate counsel.

Not exact matches

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

The Wired GC posts about a provocative subject: whether companies whose employees are accused of corporate crimes deprive them of the right to counsel by refusing to pay the cost of defense?

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.

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.

Profit squeeze: Mid-size law firms will continue to be affected by a «profit squeeze» resulting from (a) increased overhead due to higher associate and staff salaries and benefits; (b) higher automation costs, professional liability insurance and marketing expenses; (c) partners» unwillingness / inability to increase hourly fee rates for «commodity» type work to off - set higher overhead; (d) enhanced client scrutiny of hourly rates, hours to produce work and lawyer and paralegal staffing of work assignments; (e) pressure by corporate counsel for law firms to absorb more of the «soft costs;» (f) slower paying clients, that affect cash flow and hence the availability of distributable dollars for partners; and (g) a great many mid-size law firms are burdened with higher debt.

It should be remembered that work performed by in - house counsel is a corporate asset, paid for out of corporate funds.

A report released last month by ALM Legal Intelligence in the U.S. showed more corporate clients were using AFAs in 2012 to determine how to pay outside counsel.