After years of persistent wrestling with the private practice bar over corporate counsels’ ability and prerogative to manage the legal affairs of their companies, corporate counsel in most companies have prevailed. Most of them have demonstrated their competence and resolve to do their job well and their ability to manage the legal affairs of their companies.
In the 1970s and 1980s, during the transition to in-house leadership in legal matters, many skirmishes of this sort took place. Most have now been put to rest. On the whole, this is bad news for outside counsel. They are being told how they can staff the projects in which they are involved and with whom. Their control over pricing has been diminished.
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