Spend Management and E-Billing

Our guest this week is ⁠Kristina Satkunas⁠, Director of Analytic Consulting at LexisNexis. Kristina discusses the recently released LexisNexis CounselLink Enterprise Legal Management Trends Report for 2023. This annual report provides insights and benchmarks on key metrics related to corporate legal spending and outside counsel relationships.
The 2023 report found that law firm hourly rates increased 4.5% over the
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Today LexisNexis® CounselLink  released its 2022 Annual Trends Report. The unstable economy and a tighter legal market have not caused law firms to pull back on  billing rates. To the contrary law firm partner billing rates rose faster last year than they have in a decade.

The average partner rate increased by 4.5% (compared to 3.4% in 2021 and 3.5% in
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Aderant today (8 February) announces a strategic partnership with London-based legal spend analytics and matter management provider, Apperio. The two companies plan to deliver a solution that law firms can leverage to …
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LexisNexis UK has released a new report that looks at why almost half of all external legal spend is now taking place through alternative fee arrangements such as flat or …
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UK-headquartered legal spend analytics and matter tracking software vendor Apperio announced today (10 January) that it has raised a $7 million growth round of venture capital funding. The company will …
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David Eldridge, Apperio’s non-executive chairman, said the company “will use the funding to further develop its product for corporate counsel and meet the growing demand for new functionality from law firms. Apperio will also accelerate its expansion to the U.S. market.”
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The London-based company Apperio, which provides legal spend analytics and matter tracking software, said today it has raised a $7 million growth round of venture capital funding. It will use the funding to further develop its product for corporate counsel, meet growing demand from law firms for new functionality, and accelerate its expansion to the U.S. market.
The announcement
Continue Reading Eyeing U.S. Expansion, Legal Spend Management Company Apperio Raises $7M Growth Round

All too often, we think of the legal market, especially for law firms, as being composed of BigLaw or at least lawyers that bill by the hour.
 
The truth is, though, that today’s legal marketplace is composed of various segments. These segments have business models and goals that are so different that they might as well be thought of
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Today Lexis is releasing the 2022  CounselLink  Enterprise Management Trends Report. When it was established in 2013 the report included six key metrics. In recognition of the increasingly global legal market, the study now includes a  seventh metric which covers hourly billing rates for Partners in countries located outside the US. The insights in this year’s trends report are
Continue Reading Lexis 2022 CounselLink Report: Partner Rates and Panel Consolidation Continue to Rise