As the rhetoric over patent trolling reaches a fevered pitch, litigation clients — on both sides — are demanding greater allegiance from their outside counsel.

At this year’s American Bar Association Conference in San Francisco, for example, LinkedIn general counsel Erika Rottenberg told a roomful of people that her company asks firms about their NPE work — and that dissembling could be a deal-breaker.

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