According to the Chief Legal Officer survey, when Chief Legal Officers were asked what service improvements and innovations they would most like to
see from their outside counsel, this was the response:
«CLOs were asked which service improvements and innovations they would most like to
see from their outside counsel.
Not exact matches
The incident has attracted plenty of discussion in the blogosphere on issues like the legal ethics of pretexting (
from Legal Ethics Forum); whether HP General
Counsel Ann Baskins knew investigators were using pretexting and if she showed poor judgment in approving these measures (from WSJ Law Blog; see also the ensuing comments), whether pretexting «is the HP Way and how outside counsel Larry Sonsini could have claimed that the investigation was lawful when it violated sta
Counsel Ann Baskins knew investigators were using pretexting and if she showed poor judgment in approving these measures (
from WSJ Law Blog;
see also the ensuing comments), whether pretexting «is the HP Way and how
outside counsel Larry Sonsini could have claimed that the investigation was lawful when it violated sta
counsel Larry Sonsini could have claimed that the investigation was lawful when it violated state law.
Outside counsel must refrain
from influencing possible witnesses (a principle
seen as a professional duty under Article 12 (a) of the Free Movement of Lawyers Act) and are therefore in general not authorised to conduct formal interviews of witnesses.
Many firms have yet to
see mention of blockchain technology
from clients in client - provided
Outside Counsel Guidelines (OCGs) or technology questionnaires, but it is only a matter of time before such instances begin to crop up.
Corporate legal departments are happy to use enterprise legal management — also known as «practice management» to lawyers of a certain age — for the unsexy stuff: managing invoices
from outside counsel, studying legal budgets to
see where the dollars go, tracking regulatory enforcement,...