Reports & White Papers

2019 Report on the State of the Legal Market: Growing Competition Challenging Long-Held Law Firm Assumptions

MINNEAPOLIS — After years of warnings, the revolution in the legal industry finally may be crashing law firms’ gates. Growing competitive challenges from the Big…

Legal Executive Institute January 08, 2019

New Report Points to Significant Decline in UK Legal Sector if ‘No-Deal’ Brexit Happens

As government officials in the United Kingdom continue to negotiate the terms of the country’s exit from the European Union, the rising possibility that the…

Legal Executive Institute October 29, 2018

More Tech, More Diverse Staff & More Work: Dutch GCs Survey Showing Growing Role of In-House Lawyers

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — General counsel in the Netherlands are becoming more tech-savvy and more willing to turn to alternative legal service providers to get…

Legal Executive Institute October 11, 2018

Productivity is King and Dynamic Law Firms Have It, Shows New Law Firm Survey

The key takeaway from the Legal Executive Institute’s latest examination of what’s driving growth for law firms that are leading the market in improving their…

Bill Josten September 28, 2018

Australian Law Firms Saw Big Leaps in Demand and Revenue in FY2018, Says New Report

After an extended period of stagnation, Australian law firms saw levels of growth in revenue and demand in fiscal year 2018 that would have been…

Legal Executive Institute September 28, 2018

Cybersecurity & Regulatory Concerns Cited as Corporate Legal Departments Strive for Efficiency, According to New Thomson Reuters Survey

Corporate legal departments, already stretched by limited resources, are confronting new, as well as traditional, challenges, according to the 2018 Thomson Reuters Corporate Legal Department…

Legal Executive Institute September 25, 2018

New Report Shows How Corporate Law Departments in Hong Kong Are Dealing with Asian Market Growth & Regulatory Pressure

Corporate law departments in Hong Kong are dealing with increasing work-flow due mostly to the strong growth in many Asian markets and more international activity.…

Legal Executive Institute September 17, 2018

Two Surprises and a Story — The 2018 Midyear Report

At last check in January, the slow-moving transformation of legal services was accelerating. Demand growth for the average law firm was coming off another stagnant…

Justin Hines September 12, 2018

New White Paper: The State of Law Firm Leadership 2018

In new white paper published by Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, The State of Law Firm Leadership 2018, authors Patrick J. McKenna and David J.…

Legal Executive Institute August 09, 2018

New White Paper: Bringing the Courthouse into the 21st Century

A new white paper, titled Bringing the Courthouse into the 21st Century  (based off a recent webinar on Court Modernization), discusses the innovation in legal…

Legal Executive Institute August 06, 2018

Examining the Impact of Algorithms in the Courtroom: Law Society of England and Wales Takes Note

Imagine a courtroom of the future in which a federal prosecutor has all the ramped-up capabilities, research depth and legal knowledge that artificial intelligence (AI)…

Gregg Wirth July 26, 2018

New Report: Are Europe’s Lawyers Playing a “Wait & See” Game with Brexit?

In the two years since the UK voted in favor of leaving the European Union (EU) — now scheduled for March 29, 2019 — much…

Legal Executive Institute July 23, 2018