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Explore data-driven insights into legal spend, billing, and law firm performance in a benchmark report tailored for corporate legal departments.

2025 Mid-year Special Edition Trends Report: Update on Outside Counsel Billing Rates

For more than 12 years, corporate legal departments and law firms have come to expect the credible data on median law firm partner hourly rates reported in the annual Trends Report.

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2025 Trends Report: Benchmark Metrics to Empower Legal Cost Management

Since 2013, LexisNexis^® CounselLink^® has published its annual trends report with data derived from the CounselLink Insight Benchmarking Database .

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2024 Trends Report: Dynamics Shaping the Future of Legal

The 2024 Trends Report data is based on $59 billion+ in legal spend, over 460,000 timekeepers and 1.6+ million matters.

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