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Until recently, corporate legal departments often had more leeway in complying with corporate operational and budgetary expectations than other departments. Now, however, companies are expecting legal departments to more accurately predict the quality, timing and cost for their services.

10 minute read August 01, 2016 at 11:45 AM
By
Doug Luftman
Investing in New Technologies

Until recently, corporate legal departments often had more leeway in complying with corporate operational and budgetary expectations than other departments. Typically, management accepted this lower level of predictability because the GC's office was perceived as handling “legal” matters that were “different” and “more variable.”

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