Credit: ALM Report: Last Year's Uptick in Litigation Demand—a 15-Year High—Was Especially Felt in Midsize Shops
Demand was up 3.2% in litigation according to the latest report from Thomson Reuters and Georgetown Law. But demand rose 4.4% year-over-year among midsize firms, compared to just 2.4% for Am Law 100 firms and 2.5% for Second Hundred firms.
January 24, 2024 at 07:30 AM
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The latest report on the state of the legal market from Thomson Reuters and Georgetown Law suggests that certain large firms might have a "false sense of security" in light of the migration of certain kinds of work—including litigation—to less expensive alternatives. Here's how my Law.com colleague Hugo Guzman summed up the findings of the "2024 Report on the State of the US Legal Market":
Legal departments are aggressively shifting work from the Am Law 100 and Am Law Second Hundred to less expensive law firms, a new study found, a trend that began to take root during the 2007-2008 financial crisis but was partly masked by a decadelong boom in transactional work.
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