Just given the way we [GCs] are, it’s not our nature to be dissing in a public setting.
— Maureen Brundage, former general counsel and chief ethics officer of The Chubb Corp. and now a senior adviser at search and management consultant BarkerGilmore, commenting on where GCs are unlikely to disparage outside counsel. Michele Coleman Mayes, vice president, general counsel, and secretary of the New York Public Library, agreed, noting that GCs are “more discreet than that,” and “don’t sit around blabbing about law firms in a room full of people.”
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