Based on responses from over 5,800 in-house counsel, the 2011 Census Report offers key insights to legal departments, law firms, and other legal service providers on one of the largest available samples of corporate lawyers in the U.S. and Canada.
The report includes an executive summary, key findings, and full data reporting on outside legal spend, compensation, demographics, and legal department structures.
Notable findings identified in the report reflect developments in the areas of outside counsel representation, compensation, hiring patterns, department structures, primary specialties and women and minority in-house counsel trends.
The report can help legal departments:
- Evaluate your department's use of outside legal counsel in relation to current trends
- Assess your compensation compared to your peers
- See how similar organizations structure their legal departments
For law firms and legal service providers, the report can help you:
- Anticipate hiring trends and what work will be outsourced by in-house counsel
- Identify industries and practice areas that will require increased use of vendors and firms
- Evaluate corporate legal department staffing, budgets and expenditures