Law In Business: Law firms take note: in-house legal teams are taking on more and more work themselves, at the expense of their general advisers. Specialist external advice will remain in demand, but corporate counsel are confident of taking on major deals without law firms holding their hand. Ed Thornton reports
January 18, 2006 at 07:03 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Legalweek
When BOC Group and Marks & Spencer (M&S) sealed a £1bn outsourcing contract in November, outside counsel were strangely absent from the line-up of key players.
This was surprising, given that the deal was described by the two FTSE 100 companies as one of the largest food distribution contracts in the UK, seeing BOC deliver food to approximately 420 M&S stores until 2011.
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