Getting business depends on knowing how in-house counsel chooses lawyers, says Maurice G. Jenkins, the former in-house counsel at General Motors. At least 10 seminars scheduled during the ABA's week-long annual meeting in Atlanta deal with rainmaking and with keeping clients happy. Jenkins says he hopes to teach in-house counsel how to better evaluate outside counsel and to give fledgling outside counsel a chance to ask questions and learn what clients want during a seminar scheduled for Monday.
August 06, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
When Kevin M. O’Hagan thinks about his days as in-house counsel at WasteManagement Inc., the thing that still irks him is the way one of thecompany’s outside law firms acted like, well, lawyers.
“The worst thing I ever saw them do … was take an alternative feearrangement and play lawyer with it,” recalls O’Hagan, now a principalat O’Hagan, Smith & Amundsen in Chicago.
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