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Clients Projected to Cut Legal Spend in 2010

Posted by Abram Fehr on June 4, 2011 in Legal Spend

study conducted by BTI Consulting Group projected a 4.3% decrease in corporate spending on outside counsel for 2010.   According to the study, corporate counsel strategies likely to be instrumental in effectuating changes in the legal services marketing include developing cost-effective compliance strategies, resolving litigation, focusing on early case assessment, and crafting new strategies to manage outside counsel.  

The projected drop in spending continues the trend of legal department cost control that companies began to implement in 2007.