GCs, what has been your best "cold introduction" to a firm? How do you prefer for firms to do business development with you?

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Why would you want to develop business with GC’s? They have a limited budget and are cost centers. Your value is with the business teams.

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Not sure where that's the case but I've generally seen in house legal determine the legal outside counsel not the bus dev team

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