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Trends Reports

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

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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Mid-Year Special Edition 2024 Trends Report: Update on Outside Counsel Billing Rates

In the LexisNexis CounselLink 11th annual Trends Report, data revealed an exponential increase in outside counsel partner hourly rates across practice areas.

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The CounselLink blog

Your resource hub for corporate legal professionals to explore trends, benchmarks, and strategies shaping legal operations.

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