In-House Counsel

It Takes a Village to Serve a Corporate Law Department
Ever wonder how many legal jobs are created by corporations? I'm not just talking about in-house lawyer positions or even associate jobs within outside law firms that represent or advise corporations...

Total litigation spend of large American corporations as percentage of profits
?The Fortune 500 corporations spend the equivalent of one-third of shareholder profits on litigation. This cost and the associated risk are not transparent to shareholders.? Met. Corp...

In House Counsel Looking for Deals...Why Not With Solos
If you thought that large corporations had deep enough pockets to pay whatever fees their outside counsel demanded, you'd be wrong.  Turns out that corporate counsel are positively simmering over the way that many large law firms are ripping off clients with exorbitant mark-ups on contract law attorneys...

Law Firms Cut Costs, With ABA Dues and Fancy Restroom Supplies First to Go
Nickel and diming isn't something new to lawyers -- after all, many lawyers do it to clients, all the time. But now, Elie Mystal is reporting at Above the Law that firms are taking their penny pinching in-house...

Are more corporations relying on a single law firm
When I teach PR, I talk about the decline of law firms' influence over their corporate clients given the rise of in-house legal departments and the tendency of clients to farm legal work out to many different firms on a...

Law firms as public corporations
We’ve had a number of posts (for example, from Gavin and Jordan) lately on the future of the traditional law firm model. This week’s issue of The Economist has a thought-provoking article on recent changes to U...

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House Closing
Sealing a home sale

School House Abuse
Selwyn House School agrees to $5 million teacher molestation settlement.

Clean Water Act
Lexington-Fayette County agrees to spend $250 million to fix its sanitary and storm sewer systems.

Whole Foods
And Other Firms Sued by California Attorney General,

Kentucky lawyers
fraud case ends in mistrial.

Nestle USA
Recalls Toll House Refrigerated Cookie Dough Products

Brown Greer et al.
alleging that the six law firms handling the Vioxx settlement failed to provide money for reimbursements to lien rights of Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) health plans.