benchmarking report 2010

“A huge collection of metrics hitting just about every performance point a legal department needs to make."

The ACLA/CLANZ Benchmarking Report 2010 is the authoritative legal department benchmarking study for Australian in-house departments.

The core architecture, settled after general counsel focus groups in Australia and New Zealand, presents the most authoritative overview of the in-house sector of its kind ever published in Australia, and provides critical insights into the key metrics and management essentials of in-house legal departments.

who participated in the study?

Corporate and government organisations with a combined annual legal spend of over $1.6 billion participated in this leading research - a 45% increase on the previous record-breaking total.

what is in the report?

The report contains over 100 pages of hard data and analysis, including more than 150 charts, tables and graphs that compare, contrast and analyse key legal department management metrics and findings including:

• internal costs per lawyer
• fully loaded hourly in-house counsel cost
• ratio of internal/external costs
• legal costs as percentage of annual revenue
• lawyers per $billion revenue/turnover
• lawyers per 1000 employees
• legal department technologies
• top 10 monitoring tools
• top 12 methods for controlling external costs
• top 16 terms of engagement

In addition, the 2010 report also delivers entirely NEW material:

• comparative data – adding the benefit of longitudinal data for trend analysis
• strategy tips – beyond the data, what practical steps can you take to reduce costs, improve performance and demonstrate the value of the legal function?
• case studies – what have others done that’s been particularly successful? What issue did they address that you also face? What did they achieve, and how did they make it happen?
• new sections – dealing expressly with what other organisations are doing, right now, to meet the challenges of the GFC and position for the future

how do I get a copy?

You can download the report order form here. Pricing is as below:

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