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ACLA/CLANZ Legal Department Benchmarking Report 2008

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FIGURES

SECTION 3: RESPONDENTS

1 – Public/private sector
2 – Public/private sector – Australia
3 – Public/private sector – New Zealand
4 – Revenue/turnover  – National
5 – Revenue/turnover  – Global
6 – Revenue/turnover – Australia – National
7 – Revenue/turnover – Australia – Global
8 – Revenue/turnover – New Zealand – National 
9 – Revenue/turnover – New Zealand – Global
10 – FTE employees  – National
11 – FTE employees  – Global
12 – FTE employees – Australia – National
13 – FTE employees – New Zealand – National
14 – Head office – Australia – public/private
15 – Head office – New Zealand – public/private

 

SECTION 4: ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

16 – Legal department size – Australia
17 – Legal department size – New Zealand
18 – Relative legal department size
19 – CLO reporting – Australia/New Zealand
20 – CLO reporting – Australia – public/private
21 – CLO reporting – New Zealand – public/private
22 – Chief legal officer title
23 – Reporting structures – Australia – public/private

24 – Reporting structures – New Zealand – public/private
25 – Geographic structures – Australia – public/private
26 – Geographic structures – New Zealand – public/private
27 – Legal department structures matrix – Australia and New Zealand
28 – Lawyers’ alignment by work type/business unit – Australia
29 – Lawyers’ alignment by work type/business unit – New Zealand
30 – Hours worked – Australia – public/private
31 – Hours worked – New Zealand – public/private

 

SECTION 5: LEGAL SPEND

32 – Direct internal legal costs – Australia
33 – Direct internal legal costs – New Zealand
34 – Time recording – Australia/New Zealand and public/private
35 – Internal charge-backs – Australia/New Zealand
36 – Internal charge-backs – public/private
37 – External charge-backs – Australia/New Zealand
38 – External charge-backs – public/private
39 – External legal costs – Australia
40 – External legal costs – New Zealand
41 – Total legal costs – Australia

42 – Total legal costs – New Zealand
43 – Legal department growth – Australia/New Zealand
44 – Legal department growth – public/private

 

SECTION 6: PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

45 – Most pressing issues
46 – Outsourced work – Australia
47 – Outsourced work – New Zealand
48 – Insourced work – Australia
49 – Insourced work – New Zealand
50 – Organisational measures
51 – Legal department technologies – Australia/New Zealand
52 – Legal department technologies – public/private
53 – Top 10 monitoring tools

 

SECTION 7: EXTERNAL LEGAL PROVIDERS

54 – Law firms used – Australia/ New Zealand
55 – Law firms used – public/private
56 – Law firm arrangements – Australia/New Zealand
57 – Law firm arrangements – public/private

58 – Law firm change – specialist/boutique firms
59 – Law firm change – national full service firms
60 – Law firm change – local/regional full service firms
61 – Law firm change – overseas law firms
62 – Lead law firm competitors – Australia/New Zealand
63 – Lead law firm competitors – public/private
64 – Lead law firm competitors – large/small legal departments
65 – Lead law firm competitors – large corporates ($1b+ revenue)
66 – Improve working relationships – Australia/New Zealand
67 – Improve working relationships – public/private
68 – Top 16 terms of engagement – Australia
69 – Top 16 terms of engagement – New Zealand
70 – Top 15 terms of engagement – public sector
71 – Top 15 terms of engagement – private sector
72 – Matter budgets – Australia/New Zealand
73 – Matter budgets – public/private
74 – Budget compliance – Australia/New Zealand
75 – Budget compliance – public/private
76 – Sharing advance estimates
77 – Rebates – Australia/New Zealand
78 – Rebates – public/private sector
79 – Rebates – large/small legal departments
80 – Reviewing law firms
81 – Review frequency
82 – Review notification
83 – Improving RFP responses
84 – Improving RFP responses – Australia
85 – Improving RFP responses – New Zealand
86 – Barriers to changing firms – Australia/New Zealand
87 – Barriers to changing firms – public/private sector
88 – Barriers to changing firms – large/small legal departments and large corporates

 

TABLES

SECTION 3: RESPONDENTS

1 – Public/private sector divisions
2 – Industry groupings
3 – Annual revenue/turnover
4 – FTE employees
5 – FTE employees – Australia/New Zealand

 

SECTION 4: ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

6 – Legal department size
7 – Relative legal department size
8 – Legal department organisation levels
9 – Legal department non-fulltime lawyers
10 – Legal department seniority – Australia
11 – Legal department seniority – New Zealand
12 – Legal department specialisation – Australia
13 – Legal department specialisation – New Zealand
14 – Lawyers’ alignment by work type/business unit – Australia

15 – Lawyers’ alignment by work type/business unit – New Zealand
16 – Degree of alignment by work type/business unit – Australia
17 – Degree of alignment by work type/business unit – New Zealand

 

SECTION 5: LEGAL SPEND

18 – Direct internal legal costs – Australia – public/private
19 – Direct internal legal costs – New Zealand – public/private
20 – Indirect internal legal costs – Australia – public/private
21 – Indirect internal legal costs – New Zealand – public/private
22 – External legal costs – Australia – public/private

23 – External legal costs – New Zealand – public/private
24 – Total legal spend – Australia – public/private
25 – Total legal spend – New Zealand – public/private

 

SECTION 6: PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

26 – Complex work outsourced/insourced – Australia
27 – Routine work outsourced/insourced – Australia
28 – Complex work outsourced/insourced – New Zealand
29 – Routine work outsourced/insourced – New Zealand
30 – Internal costs per lawyer – Australia

31 – Internal costs per lawyer – New Zealand
32 – Lawyers per 1000 employees – Australia
33 – Lawyers per 1000 employees – New Zealand
34 – Legal costs as percentage of annual revenue
35 – Lawyers per $billion revenue/turnover
36 – Ratio of internal/external legal costs – Australia
37 – Ratio of internal/external legal costs – New Zealand
38 – Fully loaded hourly in-house counsel cost (worked hours) – Australia
39 – Fully loaded hourly in-house counsel cost (worked hours) – New Zealand
40 – Fully loaded hourly in-house counsel cost (chargeable hours) – Australia
41 – Fully loaded hourly in-house counsel cost (chargeable hours) – New Zealand

 

SECTION 7: EXTERNAL LEGAL PROVIDERS

42 – Law firm change
43 – Law firm change – Australia
44 – Law firm change – New Zealand
45 – Law firm change – public sector
46 – Law firm change – private sector
47 – Value add benefits – Australia/New Zealand
48 – Value add benefits – public/private sector

49 – Value add benefits – large/small legal departments
50 – Top 12 methods for controlling external costs – Australia/New Zealand
51 – Top 12 methods for controlling external costs – public/private
52 – Top 12 methods for controlling external costs – large/small legal departments
53 – Hourly billing – Australia/New Zealand
54 – Hourly billing – public/private
55 – Hourly billing – large/small legal departments
56 – Terminating law firms
57 – Terminating law firms – Australia
58 – Terminating law firms – New Zealand