Summary
In recent years, in-house lawyers have been increasingly looking for ways to add value to the legal department. Recent research commissioned by Burford reveals that GCs see a commercial role for legal, expect their law firms to help them generate value and see legal finance as a tool for success.
A lot has changed since we were in-house lawyers in the early 2000s. What hasn’t changed is the desire of GCs and other senior lawyers to add value to their organizations and to transcend the outmoded view of legal department as “just” cost centers. But in the y…