Fee Specialist On How GCs Are Tackling Their Budgets

Cozen O’Connor’s Bruce Meckler started his career three decades ago as a prosecutor in Chicago. Meckler still describes himself as a trial lawyer but lately, his other business has been heating up.

Called Legal Fee Solutions, it’s a stand alone company — owned by Cozen O’Connor — in which Meckler and his team of attorneys, paralegals, and other experts help in-house counsel monitor their outside spend. The work includes bill audits, expert witness testimony and general legal fee management among other duties.

He said that since around 2008, in-house counsel have been applying new scrutiny to bills, and demanding more information from their outside counsel. ...