Hiring Outside Counsel: Legal vs. Purchasing

The tension between the legal department and the purchasing department when it comes to select outside counsel is certainly a matter of growing importance in many corporations, and should raise growing concern among law firms. It has to do with other hot issues such as legal costs savings, the transformation of legal services in commodities, performance metrics for law firms, the costs of cost savings, and ultimately power struggles among heads of departments in corporation. An interesting article on this appears on www.law.com.

Antoine Henry de Frahan