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A recent survey by BTI Consulting Group found that executives at 87% of corporations said they would drop their outside legal representation if they could.

Why Businesses Are Fed Up With Their Law Firms Richard L. Upton 2010

The study, titled ‘BTI Mid-Year Spending Update and Outlook,’ covers 16 practices and 18 industries and is based on 370 interviews with corporate counsel at Fortune 1000 companies that average $19.4 million in outside counsel spending.

Corporate Legal Spending Expected to Rebound Sharply : Law is Cool 2009

After all, companies will spend about $15.5 billion this year on U.S. commercial litigation and an additional $2.6 billion on intellectual-property litigation, according to estimates by BTI Consulting Group Inc., a Wellesley, Mass., research firm that surveyed 300 large companies in 2011.

Funds Spring Up to Invest in High-Stakes Litigation Vanessa O'Connell 2011

The reversal of this negative spending trend will help buoy flailing legal markets and offers some hopeful news about business spending in general, explains Michael B. Rynowecer, President of The BTI Consulting Group.

Corporate Legal Spending Expected to Rebound Sharply : Law is Cool 2009

Since 2008, corporate spending on intellectual-property litigation in the U.S. has risen by an average 3.4% a year, according to BTI Consulting Group Inc., a Wellesley, Mass., firm that surveyed 370 lawyers at Fortune 1000 companies.

Company Lawyers Sniff Out Revenue Vanessa O'Connell 2011

In 2010, roughly 26% of in-house lawyers at Fortune 1000 companies said they used a contingency arrangement, up from 19% in 2007, according to BTI Consulting Group Inc., of Wellesley, Mass., which surveyed 300 lawyers.

Law Firms Feel Pinch Vanessa O'Connell 2011

That compares with an average yearly increase of 1.9% in spending on all U.S. commercial litigation and a 1.5% average annual increase in corporate spending on all litigation, BTI says.

Company Lawyers Sniff Out Revenue Vanessa O'Connell 2011

Following a significant decline in corporate expenditures on legal services in 2008 and the first half of 2009, businesses will once again begin increasing their law budgets in the second half of this year according to the results of a study announced today by legal industry research leader BTI Consulting.

Corporate Legal Spending Expected to Rebound Sharply : Law is Cool 2009

Large companies expect to spend about $1.3 billion, or 7.1% of their litigation spending, on it this year, according to BTI Consulting Group Inc. That is up from 5.2% five years ago, said BTI, which surveys lawyers at the 1000 biggest companies.

Using Software to Sift Digital Records Nathan Koppel 2010