Cost pressures and new corporate governance rules are the most pressing concerns for general counsel in the United States, according to the Association of Corporate Counsel’s (ACC’s) Annual Chief Legal Officer Survey.
Conducted in association with management consultancy Altman Weil, the survey of 137 delegates at the association’s annual meeting in San Francisco also revealed that some 59% of legal departments in the US had either fired or considered firing one of their outside law firms in 2003.
