Top row left to right: Vijay Bondada, Rich Spehr, Michelle Fang, Jordan Razza, Gregg Weiner and Joe Rice. Middle row left to right: Jed Wakefield, Steve Baldini, Tariq Mundiya, Scott Ford and Sarah Stroebel. Bottom row left to right: Peter Ellis, Caz Hashemi, Glenn Kurtz, Samuel Danon, Geoffrey Garinther and David Lender. (Photos: Courtesy Photos)
This year I continued my predecessor’s series of Q&As with the leaders of law firm litigation departments attempting to suss out how firms differentiate themselves in the increasingly competitive market for litigation talent and assignments.
After I took over the columnist chair midway through the year, I started reaching out to the clients on the flipside of hiring decisions, in-house litigators who decide who is going to handle what. Below find all those conversations in one place, with the in-house lawyers first. They do hold the purse strings, after all.
