Law Department Management Blog
You still have time to learn from the most comprehensive benchmark study ever done, and at no cost. If you would like to see a mini-version of the report, write me from your corporate address. Or click on this link, put in your staff and spending numbers from the end of 2009, and shortly you will get the 60-page report, replete with 25 charts, scatter-plots, and tables of medians by 18 industries and 20+ countries.
The 591 legal departments in the third release of the General Counsel Metrics global benchmark survey, which was distributed on September 27th, reported a total of US$17.1 billion in total legal spending in support of US$4.7 trillion of revenue – almost the GDP of China At the end of 2009 the participating law departments had amassed 17,700 lawyers and 14,152 other legal staff.