Working together in a digital age
19 May 2009
Peter Ollier, Seattle
Outside counsel should be “proactive, available and relevant,” said Dolores Moro of BATMark at a session on strategic management of global portfolios yesterday
The session discussed the relationship between in-house counsel and external counsel in an increasingly closely networked work environment. Paul Rawlinson of Baker & McKenzie said that high-level strategic decisions are usually dealt with by the in-house counsel, but that some business and tactical issues could be dealt with by both external and internal counsel and the question was where to draw the line.
Rawlinson used the example of Unilever, which outsourced its estimated 160,000 trademark registrations...
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