General counsel and in-house legal teams may need to brace themselves for a busy year ahead. On Tuesday, the Association of Corporate Counsel released it’s Chief Legal Officers Survey and the results point to corporate legal departments looking for reinforcements as they take on growing challenges around such areas as privacy and compliance.
The survey fielded responses from 947 participants working across 44 countries in 21 different industries. No matter where each respondent was based, it’s likely that they had to contend with the business impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in some shape or form. But for many, that doesn’t appear to be hindering plans for legal department growth.
