The Association of Corporate Counsel announced this week that it would support an initiative to overturn a German court ruling that it says would treat the country’s in-house counsel as “second-class citizens.”
As part of its advocacy efforts, the ACC is calling on German citizens and legal professionals to sign a petition that would reinstate an exemption for in-house counsel from compulsory enrollment in the country’s government-run pension system. The petition, which is set to expire on June 19, as of Friday afternoon had received more than 12,000 out of the 50,000 signatures needed in order to receive a parliamentary hearing.
