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WHAT WAS THE EXTERNAL LEGAL SPEND
FOR THE CANADIAN LEGAL DEPARTMENT
IN YOUR LAST FISCAL YEAR?
$101,000 to $500,000
24.09%
$1.1 million to $3 million
21.90%
Prefer not to answer/don't know
21.90%
$501,000 to $1 million
11.68%
$100,000 or less
10.95%
$3.1 million to $5 million
4.38%
More than $10 million
2.92%
$5.1 million to $10 million
2.19%
WHAT ARE THE LEGAL
AREAS YOU SEND TO
OUTSIDE FIRMS THE
MOST?
Litigation 77.37%
Employment/labour 62.77%
Intellectual property 32.12%
Securities/corporate
finance
29.93%
Tax 29.93%
General corporate work
(contracts, etc.)
28.47%
Mergers & acquisitions 27.74%
Regulatory matters 23.55%
Real estate 23.36%
Class action 16.06%
Environmental 15.33%
Privacy legislation and data
protection
13.14%
Information technology
(contracts, licensing, etc.)
13.14%
Immigration 11.68%
U.S./cross-border 10.95%
Other 10.22%
Advertising/marketing 4.38%
Risk mitigation 2.19%
from many different areas," he says.
"You have us stretched thin to look at every
aspect of what may face the organiza-
tion, and risk is just that overarching
statement of something that may happen
and how we can mitigate against that."
Nguyen adds: "In the absence of a dedicat-
ed risk officer, these things generally fall into
the hands of the GC, and I don't think we are
generally trained at thinking in the way that
risk professionals do."
Billable hours 70.07%
Combination of billable hours
and alternative fee arrange-
ments (AFAs) 23.36%
Flat fees 3.65%
AFAs 2.92%
CORPORATE COUNSEL SURVEY
WITH YOUR
PRIMARY
LAW FIRM/
EXTERNAL
SERVICE
PROVIDER,
WHAT TYPE
OF BILLING
ARRANGEMENT
DO YOU USE
MOST OFTEN?
