CounselLink Trends Report
Coordinated annual legal-spend benchmark report family published by LexisNexis Legal & Professional since 2013. The current 2026 edition is available through a standing required-field download form and uses actual invoi…
Questions this answers
2 · best fit firstThe coordinated annual report series publishes actual-paid outside-counsel hourly-rate levels and percentiles by geography, practice area, firm/timekeeper tier, and fee arrangement. Its historical methodology explicitly discusses insurance commodity-defense work, while also warning that all litigation is grouped regardless of dispute nature; it therefore supplies useful defense-rate context but not a defense-side-specific cohort.
The report series supplies paid outside-counsel hourly-rate trend evidence, including year-over-year change and three-year CAGR by geography and practice cohort; historical materials explicitly place insurance commodity-defense work in the rate analysis. This answers only the counsel-rate component and does not establish changing total defense-matter costs.
Fields it delivers
8 fieldsFirst-party product materials establish a United States-wide subject-matter footprint. This catalogue code means the fifty states and District of Columbia only and does not imply separately coded U.S. territories.
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