This committee focuses on solutions to corporate law and practice issues through dialogue between inside and outside counsel representing corporations. Its membership is balanced between inside and outside counsel. It has lead the profession in focusing on methods of controlling the cost of corporate litigation through the study of innovative billing and budgeting techniques, imaginative litigation management methods and alternatives to litigation.

It is also focusing on corporate compliance and preventative law and a variety of substantive topics of interest to its members. The committee sponsors an annual three-day mid-year meeting on President's weekend, a series of regional workshops, and presents other CLE programs. The committee has also published The Corporate Litigator (1989), is now working on its second edition, and publishes a regular newsletter with timely articles and law surveys.

Program materials for the 2009 Committee on Corporate Counsel CLE Seminar in Lake Buena Vista, FL are now available.

It was November 2000 when we learned that every vote matters. You remember: it was the year that a presidential election was decided by some 500 votes and there were a few months of unprecedented electoral litigation.

In-house lawyers make an average of $236,000 in pay and bonuses, up from $226,000, according to a new survey of 223 larger companies. But the pay increase comes at a time when in-house staffing is softening.