Largest Ever Legal Sourcing Benchmark Study: Procurement Respondents Needed!

Almost two thirds of those who initially took the online survey (63%) are general counsel. The next largest group of respondents consists of lawyers who report directly to the general counsel (16%). The third most frequent are law department managers (Chief Operating Officers, 8%).

Among the remainder are lawyers who do not report directly to the general counsel (4%), others in the legal department (paralegals, admins, 6%), and a scattering from each of Finance (2%), Procurement (1%), Compliance, Marketing & Communications, and Human Resources.

Other functions care about legal staffing and spending, notably finance (and its subset of purchasing), compliance and human resources. Oddly, however, procurement has barely taken advantage of this offering.

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- Rees Morrison