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Shell General Counsel : Legal directories of little value to in-house counsel

By Kevin OKeefe

Richard Wiseman, the General Counsel of Shell International Petroleum Company Limited, is horrified by the amount of money that law firms spend on preparing submissions legal directories such as Martindale-Hubbell and Chambers. He can't imagine who law firms think is naive enough to use such directories anymore than they would use the Yellow Pages in locating outside counsel. Picked that up in an article in UK publication LegalWeek. After talking with inside counsel, they raised the possibility that legal directories are more a self-perpetuating marketing-arena for law firms, as opposed to a useful tool for corporate clients. John Wallbillich, a former general counsel in the States who turned me onto the Legal Week article, calls Wiseman's a common (and thankfully honest) viewpoint...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on March 08, 2008 (boomark / email).