ACC Law Firm Scoring Seeks 'Wisdom Of The Crowd'

By Jocelyn Allison

Law360, New York (December 07, 2009, 7:27 PM ET) -- The Association for Corporate Counsel's new online system for evaluating law firms embodies one of the key factors in-house counsel consider when hiring time comes: what other corporate counsel think.

Since its launch in October, the ACC Value Index has been met with a fair amount of buzz in the legal industry, prompting criticism from some who question the adequacy of the scoring system and the decision to keep the data private, at least for now.

But in some ways, the system, which allows corporate counsel...
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