This has been sent to both MMCNET and Museum-L. Please forgive the
duplication.

The President of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis has asked if I
could find out which U.S. museums use in-house legal counsel as its
general counsel. Obviously, we would be most interested in hearing from
from or about institutions that are similar to us (approx. 1.3 million in
annual attendance; $20 million in annual budget; 45,000 sq. ft. in
physical size, etc.). However, all input would be appreciated.

At this point, we're interested in fairly basic information:

1) What institutions have legal counsel on staff rather than retaining an
outside firm for their general legal counsel?

2) Why was this decision made (why in-house rather than out-of-house)?

3) What are the benefits?

4) What are the drawbacks?

5) What are the costs?

6) Are there other considerations we should be aware of or other questions
we should be asking?

If you would rather reply to me off-list, please feel free to do so. If
there is any interest in the results, I will be happy to summarize for the
list.

Thank you for your help.

Gregg Jackson
Librarian
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
"Where children grow up ... and adults don't have to!"

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