Make way, here come the new general counsel. A forthcoming survey from BTI Consulting Group reveals that 10 percent of large companies started 2014 with new GCs at the helm of their legal departments.
Although the BTI Benchmarking Corporate Counsel Management Strategies survey, now in its 13th year, has not yet been formally released, BTI shared some insights ahead of publication. The survey was assembled using interviews from more than 300 chief legal officers and general counsel at Fortune...
The increasing pressure felt by today’s corporate legal departments on a global scale means general counsel must not only alter their practices but also become worldwide change agents for their companies, according to a new research paper from legal services firm Mitratech Holdings Inc.
“GCs are presented with a tremendous opportunity to mitigate risk to the business and decrease overall legal costs by taking on the role of change agent to drive consistent, transparent operations for their...
