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I’m positively taking extra work in-house and having legislation corporations bid on particular initiatives. Beforehand, I might need despatched one thing out to a agency by default. Now, I’m asking how far we are able to take it internally earlier than turning to exterior counsel.
— Jerry Levine, common counsel and chief evangelist at ContractPodAi, in feedback given to Legislation.com, in regards to the rising charges being charged by exterior counsel. “I’m giving extra work to smaller corporations or regional workplaces of bigger corporations,” he went on to say. “It’s usually the identical high quality of legal professional, but when I pays Cincinnati charges as a substitute of Manhattan charges, that issues.”
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