expected to reach 68 billion U.S. dollars in 2020. These values only include spending on legal services by companies with over one billion U.S. dollars in revenue.
Spending on outside legal counsel is the largest segment of the U.S. legal services industry, totaling 66 billion U.S. dollars in 2019. This figure has been steadily growing since 2015, and is Size of the legal services market in the United States in 2019 and 2020, by category (in billion U.S. dollars)
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BTI Consulting. (2019). Size of the legal services market in the United States in 2019 and 2020, by category (in billion U.S. dollars). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: March 08, 2021. https://www.statista.com/statistics/741393/size-of-the-legal-services-market-by-category-us/
BTI Consulting. "Size of The Legal Services Market in The United States in 2019 and 2020, by Category (in Billion U.S. Dollars)." Statista, Statista Inc., 7 Oct 2019, https://www.statista.com/statistics/741393/size-of-the-legal-services-market-by-category-us/
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