General counsels’ (GCs) responsibilities have become increasingly complex in recent years. Not only as legal experts, GCs are also taking on a more commercial mind-set and more involvement in business decision. Meanwhile, the pressure is still high on GCs to reduce external spend and build in-house capability with a focus to get their budgets lower.

ALB 2017 China GCs Survey aiming to address the challenges GCs from different sectors are facing, their relationship with external counsels and what 2018 looked like.  The survey result will be illuminating as a barometer of what’s on the minds of GCs in China. Survey Report will be published on ALB China Issue November, 2017.

ALB invites below in-house counsels to join ALB 2017 China GCs Survey:

•Chief Legal Officer/Chief Compliance Officer (or the legal head at same level)

•General Counsel(or the legal head at same level)

•Legal Director(or the legal head at same level)

ALB 2017 China GC Survey Report will compose of:

•Industries of the companies respondents represented

•Legal team size and structure

•Legal team responsibilities

•Legal spend situation and trend

•Internal & external work split

•GCs’ challenges

•External counsels satisfaction rate

•Main concern for the external counsels

•Factors when employ new external counsels

•Ways to locate external counsels

Respondents’ benefits:

•ALB will keep respondents’ answers confidential;

•General Counsels who complete the survey successfully can receive a copy of ALB magazine of which issue publish this survey.

•General Counsels are welcome to share an additional opinion on any of the questions while taking the survey, the opinions will have opportunities to be published on ALB Magazine.

It will take no more than 5 minutes to complete the survey, please take the survey here. We will close the survey on October 18th .

ALB 2017 China GCs Survey is exclusively sponsored by Jincheng Tongda&Neal.

If any questions, please feel free to contact us at TRALB.Ranking@thomsonreuters.com.

近年来，总法律顾问的工作职责愈发丰富。总法律顾问不仅仅是法律专家，也更多地展现了商业思维以及越来越多地参与着商业决策。与此同时，总法律顾问仍然面临着缩减外部支出、提升法务能力以期降低预算的压力。

ALB2017年中国总法律顾问调查旨在了解和分析来自不同行业的总法律顾问们面临的挑战、与外部律师的关系，以及对2018年的展望。调查报告将作为反映总法律顾问想法的晴雨表，极具行业启示性，调查报告内容将刊登在ALB中国版 2017年11月刊杂志上。

ALB邀请以下级别的法务负责人参与ALB2017年中国总法律顾问调查：

•首席法务官/首席合规官（或同级别法务负责人）

•总法律顾问（或同级别法务负责人）

•法务总监（或同级别法务负责人）

调查报告内容将包括：

•参与调查的总法律顾问的行业分布

•法务团队的规模和结构

•法务团队的工作职责

•公司法律支出的现状和趋势

•内部外部工作划分

•总法律顾问面临的挑战

•对外部法律顾问的满意度

•对外部法律顾问服务和技能关注的方面

•在选择新的外部法律顾问时的考虑因素

•会通过何种方式选择外部法律顾问

参与调查者的权益：

•ALB将对参与调查者的问卷内容保密，在未征得参与调查者同意的情况下，ALB不会直接披露参与调查者在本调查问卷中的作答；

•成功完成调查的总法律顾问，可获得刊登ALB2017年中国总法律顾问调查报告的该期杂志一份；

•总法律顾问在调查中分享的观点将有机会登上ALB中国版杂志。

调查仅需5分钟即可完成，请点击此处链接参与调查，调查将在10月18日关闭。

本次调查由金诚同达律师事务所独家赞助。

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