Corporate
Jul. 30, 2013
Rising rates fuel tension between GCs and outside counsel
Changes brought about during the recession are having lingering effects on corporate legal departments' relationships with their outside attorneys, and clients increasingly say they're disappointed in their primary law firms.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
In-house counsel are unimpressed. The consequences of changes wrought during the economic downturn have had lingering effects on corporate legal departments' relationships with outside attorneys. General counsel and other in-house observers say high billing rates - ostensibly to make up for lower rates during the recession - combined with poor customer care as a result of law firm downsizing and an unwil...
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