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Proportion of work outsourced by organizations to large law firms globally 2017
Proportion of work outsourced to large legal service providers worldwide in 2017
by E. Mazareanu,
last edited
Feb 5, 2019
This statistic depicts the proportion of work outsourced to large legal service providers worldwide in 2017. During the survey, 41 percent of respondents stated their organization outsourced less than 25 percent of their legal work.
Proportion of work outsourced to large legal service providers worldwide in 2017
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by E. Mazareanu,
last edited
Feb 5, 2019
This statistic depicts the proportion of work outsourced to large legal service providers worldwide in 2017. During the survey, 41 percent of respondents stated their organization outsourced less than 25 percent of their legal work.
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- January 2018
- Region
- Worldwide
- Survey time period
- September and October 2017
- Number of respondents
- 300 respondents
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- general counsels and senior in-house lawyers at companies with annual revenues of over 1 billion dollars.
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- Age of respondents and survey method not stated by the source.
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- Worldwide
- Survey time period
- September and October 2017
- Number of respondents
- 300 respondents
- Special properties
- general counsels and senior in-house lawyers at companies with annual revenues of over 1 billion dollars.
- Supplementary notes
- Age of respondents and survey method not stated by the source.
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