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Bank of America Request for Legal Fee Credit Raises Ethical Questions

Corporate Counsel

October 10, 2012

BofA is asking some of its select outside law firms to give the company a credit on its annual legal fees, based on the amount of customer business sent to the law firms. Some experts say that practice is highly unusual and ethically suspect.

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