A note from Career Counsel columnist Jay Kim: This month we have a guest columnist: Carol Warren Simon, a managing director in Major, Lindsey & Africa’s San Francisco office. MLA has undertaken a benchmarking survey project that yielded some interesting data, and she discusses some of the highlights here.
If you are the general counsel or hiring manager for an in-house legal department, I’m guessing that you don’t often hear your CFO say, “Go ahead and spend whatever you need—okay? No limits on legal spend!” Unless you are dealing with a major legal crisis, that messaging doesn’t happen very often. Usually, the directive from the CFO (or CEO) is a resounding message to control legal spend or, even better, reduce it.
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