expected to reach 76.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2021. 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 71.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2021. This figure has been steadily growing since 2015, and is Size of the legal services market in the United States between 2020 and 2022, by category (in billion U.S. dollars)
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Statistics on Legal services in the U.S.
Industry overview
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- Premium Statistic Size of the global legal services market 2021 with forecast until 2026
- Premium Statistic Industry revenue of legal services in the U.S. 2012-2024
- Premium Statistic Size of the legal services market in the U.S. by category 2020-2022
- Premium Statistic Law firms in the United States with the highest revenue per lawyer 2021
- Premium Statistic Law firms in the United States with the highest number of lawyers in 2021
- Basic Statistic Total number of equity partners working at the leading U.S. law firms 2016-2020
- Premium Statistic Average profit per equity partner of the leading U.S. law firms 2015-2021
Employment
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- Premium Statistic Number of law graduates in the U.S. 2013-2021
- Premium Statistic Employment status of 2021 law graduates in the U.S. by category 2022
- Premium Statistic Share of unemployed law graduates in the U.S. in the class years 2013-2021
- Premium Statistic Number of employees in legal occupations in the U.S. 2012-2021
- Premium Statistic Number of employees in legal occupations in the U.S. by category 2021
- Premium Statistic States with the highest employment in legal occupations in the U.S. 2021
- Premium Statistic Employee wages of legal occupations in the U.S. 2021
- Premium Statistic States with the highest wages for legal occupations in the U.S. 2021
Diversity
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- Premium Statistic Employee gender distribution in the best 100 law firms for women in the U.S. 2022
- Premium Statistic U.S. law firms with the highest percentage of minority attorneys 2021
- Premium Statistic U.S. law firms with the highest percentage of Asian-American attorneys 2021
- Premium Statistic U.S. law firms with the highest percentage of African-American attorneys 2021
- Premium Statistic U.S. law firms with the highest percentage of Hispanic attorneys 2021
Trends
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- Premium Statistic Share of U.S. law firms by legal services which are a threat to their business 2020
- Premium Statistic Methods used by U.S. law firms to increase efficiency of legal services 2017-2020
- Premium Statistic Top challenges for law firms worldwide 2020
- Premium Statistic Online legal services market size in the U.S. 2011-2021
- Premium Statistic Impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) on legal activity in the U.S. 2020
Consumers´ perspective
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Further related statistics
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- Size of the legal market in the U.S. 2016, by category
- Litigation/practice support personnel training in global legal departments 2016-2018
- General counsels' most important factor when selecting law firms worldwide 2017
- Corporate outside legal counsel spending in the U.S. 2001-2020
- Managed services used for litigation/practice support worldwide 2016-2018
- Social media data collection by law firms and legal departments worldwide 2016-2018
- Proportion of work outsourced by organizations to large law firms globally 2017
- Share of the global legal services market by region or country 2017
- Share of law firms with litigation/practice support worldwide by size 2016-2018
- Quarterly confidence index of the legal industry in the U.S. 2014-2015
- Corporate legal affairs spending in the U.S. 2001-2014
- Size of the global legal services market in select countries 2016
- Share of the global legal services market in select countries 2016
- Leading incentives for Canadian legal professionals to remain at a firm 2016
- States with the highest employment of paralegals and legal assistants U.S. 2020-2021
- Industry revenue of “other legal services“ in Texas 2012-2024
- Global revenue of the legal services industry by country and region 2015
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Statistics
- Size of the legal market in the U.S. 2016, by category
- Litigation/practice support personnel training in global legal departments 2016-2018
- General counsels' most important factor when selecting law firms worldwide 2017
- Corporate outside legal counsel spending in the U.S. 2001-2020
- Managed services used for litigation/practice support worldwide 2016-2018
- Social media data collection by law firms and legal departments worldwide 2016-2018
- Proportion of work outsourced by organizations to large law firms globally 2017
- Share of the global legal services market by region or country 2017
- Share of law firms with litigation/practice support worldwide by size 2016-2018
- Quarterly confidence index of the legal industry in the U.S. 2014-2015
- Corporate legal affairs spending in the U.S. 2001-2014
- Size of the global legal services market in select countries 2016
- Share of the global legal services market in select countries 2016
- Leading incentives for Canadian legal professionals to remain at a firm 2016
- States with the highest employment of paralegals and legal assistants U.S. 2020-2021
- Industry revenue of “other legal services“ in Texas 2012-2024
- Global revenue of the legal services industry by country and region 2015
BTI Consulting. (January 13, 2022). Size of the legal services market in the United States between 2020 and 2022, by category (in billion U.S. dollars) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved March 20, 2023, from 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 between 2020 and 2022, by category (in billion U.S. dollars)." Chart. January 13, 2022. Statista. Accessed March 20, 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/741393/size-of-the-legal-services-market-by-category-us/
BTI Consulting. (2022). Size of the legal services market in the United States between 2020 and 2022, by category (in billion U.S. dollars). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: March 20, 2023. 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 between 2020 and 2022, by Category (in Billion U.S. Dollars)." Statista, Statista Inc., 13 Jan 2022, 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 between 2020 and 2022, by category (in billion U.S. dollars) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/741393/size-of-the-legal-services-market-by-category-us/ (last visited March 20, 2023)
Size of the legal services market in the United States between 2020 and 2022, by category (in billion U.S. dollars) [Graph], BTI Consulting, January 13, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/741393/size-of-the-legal-services-market-by-category-us/