Data & Metrics

Hot IP Sector Resulting in More Work for Law Firms, New Report Shows

Intellectual Property continues to be a hot segment of the legal marketplace. However, making the decision to protect or enforce intellectual property rights has increasingly…

Thomson Reuters Institute November 16, 2015

ACC Census Shows Growth for Women in Numbers, but Not in Salary, Says ACC’s Richardson

The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) recently released its 2015 ACC Global Census Report, which gathered responses from more than 5,000 in-house counsel in 73…

Sameena Kluck November 10, 2015

New Thomson Reuters Report Examines Women on UK Company Boards: Where Are We Now?

Thomson Reuters’ Practical Law UK recently published an extract from its upcoming trends report Annual Reporting and AGMs 2015, What’s Market Practice?, which to be…

Sameena Kluck November 10, 2015

FORUM Magazine Exclusive: Beyond PPP — New Approaches for Measuring Law Firm Performance

Whether you are opposed to the Profits-Per-Partner (PPP) metric as distorting and reductionist, supportive in the name of transparency and openness, or simply resigned to…

Thomson Reuters Institute November 03, 2015

Peer Monitor Economic Index Drops in 3rd Q — Positive Demand, but Weakening Trends

EAGAN, Minn. — The Peer Monitor Economic Index (PMI), which measures the relative health of the legal marketplace, fell two points to 52 in the…

Peer Monitor October 27, 2015

LEI Litigation Report: Heightened Competition Reigns as More Firms Vie for Litigation Work

It is no longer headline news that demand for litigation in large law firms is shrinking. This is a trend much of the industry has…

Jennifer Roberts October 21, 2015

In-House Legal Departments Continue to Adapt, According to New Thomson Reuters Report

The work in-house legal departments are doing has undergone major transitions over the past few years. In a world where outsourcing is coined as the…

Jennifer Roberts October 14, 2015

Law Firm Leaders Forum Preview: Legal Marketplace Seeing Hyper-Competition amid Flat Demand, Report Shows

NEW YORK — The legal industry has changed dramatically in the years since the beginning of the Great Recession, and is now driven by market…

Thomson Reuters Institute October 05, 2015

Firms’ Tech Spending Stabilizes as Expense Growth Ticks Upward, According to PMI Report

Demand seepage is placing significant pressure on law firms and setting the stage for an increasingly competitive marketplace as the legal market splits into “bet-the-house”…

Jennifer Roberts September 28, 2015

View from the Law Firm Financial Performance Forum: New Metrics Offer a New Look

NEW YORK -- At last week’s Law Firm Financial Performance Forum, I presented on the topic of performance metrics for the legal market. Some of…

Jennifer Roberts September 23, 2015

Legal Demand Up, but Poor Productivity Hampers Law Firms, PMI Report Shows

A key path to improving law firm productivity is to increase billable work product output without increasing either headcount or hours. Like most industries, large…

Charlotte Rushton September 21, 2015

Law Firms Growing Professional Staff, but Compensation Remains Flat, LEI Survey Shows

Law firms tend to keep their cards close to the vest. But every so often, information comes out that gives us a bit of a…

Bill Josten September 10, 2015