Large UK law firms collectively spend £44m per annum on document production, with £36m spent in-house and outsourced services accounting for just over £5m of the total, according to a research report released recently by Pitney Bowes.

The report also discloses that document production accounts for 38% of the legal IT market segment, but while IT outsourcing has a market penetration of 28%, under 12% of document production services are outsourced.