Firms, Legal Departments Are ‘At War With Each Other’
- Posted by Law.com on July 2nd, 2008
- Filed in Law Department Management
Changes in the business climate have created different kinds of management challenges for chief legal officers compared with those faced by law firm leaders — in some ways putting them at odds with each other — according to consultant Doug Richardson. The increasing cost control tensions are changing the relationships, Richardson suggested. “The relationship between in-house lawyers and outside firms are becoming a lot less friendly,” he said.
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