Corporate Insiders Value Loyalty From Outside Counsel
Loyalty and good communication should be at the top of the list for outside counsel in dealing with their corporate clients, said two panelists in a recent symposium, reports Bloomberg BNA.
David Hecker and Arthur Simon were panelists at the Oct. 17 discussion “Lawyers’ Professional Responsibilities and Liabilities from Clients’ Perspective,”held during the 2014 Aon Law Firm Symposium in Chicago.
Hecker is general counsel of the infrastructure group for Peter Kiewit Sons’ Inc. in Omaha, Neb., a construction, mining and engineering company. Simon is general counsel for William Blair & Co., a global investment banking and asset management firm headquartered in Chicago.
They talked in detail about the protection of confidential information and the appearance of conflicts of interest.