Practice Management

GCs: Do you really need Big, Clumsy & Myopic in 20 cities worldwide?

By Dan Hull

Managing Partner, remote European branch office, BCM firm (photo: 20th Century Fox).

Is there any reason to keep using your US or UK-based law firm that expanded in the past few years all over the globe like a spastic hamburger franchise?

And often mediocre, and unresponsive, we might add. Sure, some branch offices are better than others, but... If you are in-house counsel working for a great company, and doing business everywhere, is there any reason to keep engaging your US or UK-based law firm that expanded in the past few years all over the globe like a spastic hamburger franchise?

When those firms expanded internationally, they diluted their talent and "gene" pool, and their value to your company, and you know it.

Larger firms, to get larger, acquired lawyers and smaller law firms in the US and abroad they wouldn't have looked at twice 15 years ago.

Full post as published by What About Clients? on May 27, 2010 (boomark / email).