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A release issued by the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR Institute) announcing the recipients of the organization’s 2009 Corporate Leadership Award. Thomas L. Sager, Senior Vice President & General Counsel of DuPont and Amy W. Schulman, Senior Vice President & General Counsel of Pfizer were recognized.
Alternative fee arrangements (AFAs) was a topic during a meeting in St. Louis of DuPont Legal leaders and representatives from its Network of Primary Law Firms and Service Providers. Tom Sager, DuPont GC discussed why he likes AFAs and so did some of the law firm members. Click here for the whole article.
This article outlines the opinions of three in-house counsel on what they want from their outside counsel. This was a panel at a meeting of DuPont Company legal leaders and representatives from its Network of primary law firms and legal service providers. The in-house counsel agreed that one of the most important things is predictability from the outside counsel – they should know what’s happening in cases and should communicate regularly with their in-house counterparts. Click here for the whole article.
Alternative fee arrangements (AFAs) was a topic during a meeting in St. Louis of DuPont Legal leaders and representatives from its Network of Primary Law Firms and Service Providers. Tom Sager, DuPont GC discussed why he likes AFAs and so did some of the law firm members.
Bloomberg News ran an article about how U.S. companies, adopting a model used by DuPont Co., are adding firms with 300 or fewer lawyers to their outside-counsel roster and saving as much as half compared with fees of Wall Street firms more than triple that size. Click here for the whole article.
