The last few years have seen legal departments looking harder for new ways to work smarter. A great deal of that involves how they interact with their outside counsel partners. New data collected by LexisNexis CounselLink shows that several major trends in how corporate legal departments work with outside firms are continuing.
The 2014 Mid-Year Edition of Lexis’ Enterprise Legal Management Trend Report (called midyear because it looks at data collected during the 12 months up to June 30, 2014) reveals that one of the most important trends of the last couple of years—the consolidation of the number of law firms companies are using (commonly called convergence)—is still going strong.
