Incisive Media’s Corporate Counsel magazine today announced the selection of the in-house attorneys of The Hartford Financial Services Group as winners of the magazine’s fourth annual “Best Legal Department” competition. Corporate Counsel’s editors also named the legal departments of Exelon Corporation and IBM as finalists. The in-house legal department at The Hartford was selected for its work [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 20, 2009
The merged legal department of Bank of America and Merrill Lynch, with around 700 lawyers, is looking at pending layoffs. The bank’s lawyers are being required to reapply for their own jobs, which is invariably a precursor to cuts. Bank of America, based in Charlotte, North Carolina is the largest financial services company in the world, largest [...]
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According to the 2009 Barometer survey of Canadian in-house counsel, 66% of in-house lawyers feel the economic situation has affected their legal department; 59% say they are conducting more work internally compared with six months ago; 75% of in-house counsel surveyed say that their legal departments have taken steps to rein in costs. The survey reports [...]
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