The question should not perhaps be can we trust our advisers on fees. But instead, can we trust ourselves to kick this debate into the long grass at some point in the next five years? Because if we can’t, then perhaps we’re not doing our own jobs properly as in-house counsel...
September 04, 2012 at 07:35 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Legalweek
I am sitting on a panel next week at the Legal Week Corporate Counsel Forum and as panellists we have been asked to discuss the potentially controversial question, “Can you trust your adviser on fees?”, which I think is teed-up really as another excuse to put the in-house boot into those old chestnuts, the hourly rate, bill padding and the general iniquity of external legal fees.
Except, isn’t that all a bit, well, yawn?
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