The amount of legal work that many companies are engaged in is growing, a new report says, but legal departments’ budgets aren’t.

So unsurprisingly, roughly three-quarters of all legal departments say controlling outside counsel costs is a high priority, according to the latest research from Thomson Reuters released Monday. This has resulted in adding in-house lawyers and legal operations staff in some cases.

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