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Large law departments increased internal expenses twice as fast as all the departments in a survey

By Rees Morrison

Altman Weil published data in GC Mid-Atlantic, June 2008, at 30, that compares metrics from the firm?s 2003 benchmark survey to its 2007 survey (See my post of July 20, 2008: demographics of the surveys and some observations on methodology.). One set of metrics covers inside law-department expenses per lawyer. For a group of survey companies with annual revenues of $5 billion and over (?large departments?), in 2003 their average was $345,685; four years later the average had risen 10 percent read more

Full post as published by Law Department Management on July 21, 2008 (boomark / email).