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Law Practice

Sep. 16, 2009

Law Firms Vie For 'Preferred Provider' Status

Yuri Mikulka heads the litigation practice at Zuber & Taillieu. She said as companies shrink their numbers of outside counsel, “competition is steeper.”

By Rebecca U. Cho
Daily Journal Staff Writer

The competition among big law firms for clients is getting more heated.

As companies strive to chop legal costs, several in-house legal departments have begun pairing back the numbers of law firms they use for out-sourced work, locking firms in a fierce battle to get on their lists of so-called "preferred providers." The lists have long been in existence - pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and chemical compa...

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