Legal Week’s client report found GCs are not happy with advisers. Alex Aldridge finds out why

Legal Week Intelligence’s FTSE Client Satisfaction Report 2008, published last November, is a timely reminder of the extent to which many in-house counsel at leading corporates feel neglected by their law firms. They complain that large City firms in particular have been concentrating on lucrative mandates from banks and private equity houses at their expense. Now that such work has dried up, the report suggests that many companies may be less than receptive to firms’ renewed advances.