When FMC Corp. hired a procurement consulting company this year to analyze potential cost savings across any indirect spending, it sent a shudder through the legal department whose general counsel admits she was a bit skeptical at first of the impact such data analytics would have on her choices for outside counsel.

But for general counsel Andrea Utecht, she is willing to see where the process will take her as she also has to deal with weeding out the duplication of law firms in a number of regions after FMC’s acquisition last year of Denmark-based Cheminova.

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