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Corporate counsel leaders 'concerned' with targeting of in-house lawyers
The Association of Corporate Counsel has launched a project to document the frequency with which in-house lawyers are targeted by prosecutors and regulators when their employers are in trouble.
Worry grows over over in-house targeting
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The research plan, which will reach out to law firms asking them to relay information on the experiences of their clients, follows a claim last week by Lauren Stevens - former vice president and general counsel of GlaxoSmithKline – that in-house lawyers had a ‘target on their back’.
Ms Stevens was accused of making false statements to the Food and Drug Administration, only to be acquitted by a judge who said she ‘never should have been prosecuted’.
Time-frame
The ACC’s chief legal strategist, Amar Sarwal, said at the association's annual convention in Orlando earlier his week: ‘The government, regulators, perhaps even opposing counsel, have a target on your back.’
The ACC’s proposed programme is just the beginning of the organisations attempts to follow the issue, Mr Sarwal added. A time-frame for making the results public was not discussed, but Reuters reports that it is expected that the law firms will ‘respond within a few weeks’.
