Wake Up Call: Employees ‘Avoid’ In-House Legal, Survey Finds

In today’s column, Norton Rose Fulbright matched Cravath’s scale for associate pay; eying the economy, law firms are expanding in bankruptcy and other “counter-cyclical” practices; an appeals court granted a retrial because of Zoom snafus.

• Leading off, most enterprise employees responding to a recent survey said they consider their in-house legal departments “protectors of the business,” but most also said they do not consider legal “a good business partner” and would avoid consulting them when possible. Research firm Provoke Insights on behalf of enterprise legal management software company Onit surveyed 4,000 enterprise employees and 500 corporate legal pros across the ...