Kudos to the Legal Marketing Association – Los Angeles Chapter program team on today’s Corporate Counsel Panel. I have to say, I always love me a GC panel. Sure we hear the same ol’ same ol’, but there are always a few new nuggets of information in there. Corporate Counsel
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Cut my legal fee rates? Cut your own fat first.
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Watching my Twitter feed today I really enjoyed the following conversation:
Timothy B. Corcoran tweeted that at an ITLA09 panel discussing how technology can support alternative fees, a BigLaw partner said:
Clients can look for savings elsewhere in legal budget other than my billable hour.
Matt Homann quickly concurred, “And they will!!”
In all…
Legal Departments are Cost Centers
By Heather Morse on
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I relate to in-house counsel. Not because I’m a lawyer, but because we are both cost-centers to our respective organizations. We are both beholden to the shareholders and partners of our companies and firms. We are trusted servants of a budget with no apparent revenue stream. We both provide necessary services. Yet, in a down…