2013 HBR Law Department Survey Participation Request
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THE HBR LAW DEPARTMENT SURVEY
The HBR Law Department Survey is the premier source of benchmarking data, providing the most comprehensive statistical information on legal spending, staffing, management, and compensation. It is designed by law department consultants with over 26 years of unmatched experience in conducting benchmarking and best practices surveys and studies.
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- How do you measure your law department's performance?
- How does your legal staffing and spending compare to peers in your industry and size range?
- What cost savings strategies are law departments implementing?
- How does the hourly cost of in-house lawyers compare to hourly rates of outside counsel?
- What are the timekeeping and chargeback practices in law departments?
- How competitive is your compensation package for U.S. legal staff?
- What is the basis for salary increases?
We collect data directly from General Counsel and law department and corporate compensation managers. We apply our proven rigorous quality control process to verify all data for consistency and accuracy. Our methodology has been refined and tested in over 25 years of survey and law department consulting work.
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Our two-part Survey – Law Department Metrics and Compensation - provides answers to these and many other questions facing General Counsel, law department managers, and compensation professionals.
| Part I - Law Department Metrics Reports |
- Inside Legal Spending
- Outside Legal Spending
- Trends in Legal Spending
- Inside Legal Staffing
- Key Staffing Ratios
- Trends in Law Department Staffing
Corporate Allocations and Chargebacks
- Law Department Organization
- Forecast for Legal Services
- Outside Counsel Management
- Intellectual Property Information
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| Part II - Compensation Reports |
- Base Salary
- Actual Bonus
- Target Bonus
- Long-term Incentives and Total Compensation by Staff Level
- Practice Area, Law Class Year
- Law Class Year
- Reports on:
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9 Attorney Levels |
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13 Non-Attorney Professional Levels |
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3 Paralegal Levels |
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8 Support Staff Levels |
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We create an individualized survey report package for each order. You choose three reports from over 40 selections for Law Department Metrics or Compensation; or you can decide on a combination of the two.
- We offer subgroup reports by industry, company size, law department size, and region.
- We also have extensive customization capabilities to allow for custom peer groups and analysis.
Our tailored offering is designed to provide you with the reports you need to best meet your benchmarking needs.
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We are pleased to announce record-breaking participation levels in the 2012 HBR Law Department Survey with 260 global law departments providing data!
To order, download and submit your order form to lawdepartmentsurvey@hbrconsulting.com.
NEW! Your Company Trend Report. Please contact us for information and the order form.
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2012 HBR LAW DEPARTMENT SURVEY IS STILL AVAILABLE
FOR PURCHASE!
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2011 HBR LAW DEPARTMENT SURVEY IS STILL AVAILABLE
FOR PURCHASE!
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“We find the HBR Law Department Survey to be an excellent benchmarking tool that we use every year to help us gauge our performance, analyze compensation levels and set our budgets. It's user-friendly and the various categories of data allow us to assess a variety of areas meaningfully. It's truly a great resource!”
General Counsel of a Leading
Business Services Company |
“We use the survey information as the basis for our own law department's targets, strategies and implementation. Time and time again it has proven to be an effective wake-up call and helps us make a strong case for change.”
Director of Legal Operations of a
Leading Financial Services Company |
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