Many corporate legal departments are giving outside counsel less work these days in a concerted effort to cut costs, according to a new survey by legal staffing agency Robert Half Legal.
One-quarter of the in-house lawyers surveyed in “Delivering Maximum Value in a Cost-Conscious Legal Era” said their legal departments would turn over less work to outside firms over the next year, while 61 percent predicted no change. Only 10 percent said they would give more work to outside firms.
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