Corporate legal departments are not typically thought of as profit-drivers within their organizations, but since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, in-house attorneys are likely facing the same pressures as everyone else to trim costs. Getting there may require not only revisiting traditional payment models with outside counsel, but also figuring out how to be less reliant upon external service providers in general. In-house attorneys appear to be stepping up on both counts, using pricing insights born of technology to push for new fee structures or arrangements while slowly adapting their own infrastructure to accommodate processes like e-discovery. Here's a look at five ways corporate legal departments are trying to save on costs post-COVID-19.