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• What, GC Worry?

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 673
  
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• GCs Working Harder but Pay Has Flattened, Experts Say

  
  InhouseBlog.com — Authority: 111
  As more legal work moves in house and businesses wrestle with more corporate governance requirements, it’s logical that the chief legal officer’s importance to a corporation would be greater than ever. But increased value won’t necessarily be showing up in paychecks. In most cases, general counsel pay this year ...
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• Costs surpass compliance as in-house lawyers top concern

  
  FP Legal Post — Authority: 439
  So whats on the minds of in-house counsel these days? The legal bills of their outside counsel, according to a survey from Association of Corporate Counsel and Serengeti. While compliance has been at the top of the heap since 2006, rising legal bills and recessionary belt-tightening have combined to make costs top ...
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• Bank of America’s 44-Day GC Gets Chief Executive Job

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 673
  The former general counsel of Bank of America has been chosen as its new chief executive. Brian Moynihan, 50, was chosen late Wednesday, according to stories in the New York Times, Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.). He joined Bank of America in 2004 when it acquired FleetBoston Financial Corp. ...
  2 weeks ago

• CCI Job Board Posting: In-House Counsel at Fortune 500 Pharmaceutical Company

  
  Corporate Compliance Insights — Authority: 425
  Reporting to the Deputy General Counsel, the In-House Counsel will be responsible for providing counsel on all matters related to the development and approval of all advertising, promotional and training materials related to product promotion. (This is only a summary of the article. Click on the headline to view the ...
  3 weeks ago

• New Career Path for U.S. Lawyers: Outsourcing Firms

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 673
  Outsourcing firms could offer an alternative career path for job-hunting lawyers. That’s the suggestion of international management consulting firm Fronterion, which advises law firms and corporations on outsourced legal services. The firm has released a list of the top 10 trends for outsourcing in 2010 that ...
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• Partner Decries Depersonalization of BigLaw, Urges Investment in Associates

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 673
  A law firm partner who saw the demise of her former firm, Heller Ehrman, says the quest for immediate returns and status contributed to its downfall. Patricia Gillette, now a labor and employment partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, says too many of the nation’s largest law firms are marching down a path ...
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• As Law Firms Respond to Crisis, 21% of Law Students Regret Choice

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 673
  It’s not surprising that law students are a discontented lot. A new survey by LexisNexis found that, based on the changing legal marketplace, 21 percent of law students regret attending law school. Thirty-five percent said they don’t feel adequately prepared to succeed in the new marketplace, and 65 percent said ...
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• AIG GC Reportedly Threatens to Resign if Pay Czar Cuts Her Compensation

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 673
  The general counsel of American International Group is reportedly one of five corporate employees who told the company last week that they would resign if the government’s pay czar cuts their compensation. AIG general counsel Anastasia Kelly reportedly asked other employees to join her in indicating their intention ...
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• Objections to a Prosecutor’s Phone Call Benefit Ex-Broadcom GC

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 673
  Broadcom’s former general counsel won’t face criminal backdating charges because of a phone call by a federal prosecutor. The government plans to give former general counsel David Dull a nonprosecution agreement after a federal judge criticized the phone call by Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Stolper, the Orange ...
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• Pfizer GC Pushes for Flat Fees and Gets Them

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 673
  Pfizer Inc.’s general counsel Amy Schulman has a theory about the way to force changes in law firm billing, and she’s putting it into practice. "I really believe that if you are going to try to do something that is fundamentally not based on the billable hour, you cant do it in baby steps," Schulman told the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Opinion Letters Are Privileged, Calif. High Court Rules

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 673
  The California Supreme Court, in a unanimous opinion, ruled that factual information in letters from outside counsel to corporate counsel is just as privileged as legal advice. "Although exercise of the privilege may occasionally result in the suppression of relevant evidence, the legislature of this state has ...
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• DynCorp Fires Top Compliance Lawyer in Wake of Foreign Bribery Probe

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 673
  Defense contractor DynCorp International Inc. has fired its top compliance lawyer amid an internal investigation into whether its employees bribed foreign government agencies.The fired lawyer, Curtis Schehr, had joined the company in 2006 as general counsel, Corporate Counsel reports. In a Nov. 9 report, DynCorp ...
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• The Empty (In-)House

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 673
  As corporations try to patch up the financial damage of the recession, they need to be wary of cuts to in-house legal departments, which face the challenge of increased regulation arising from that same recession, says a commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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