Category Legal Spend Management

Rates are just one lever. Discover the law firm value adds legal departments actually negotiate: secondments, AFA pilots, training, and data commitments.

Off-panel legal spend leakage quietly undermines law firm panel programs. Where it comes from, how to measure it & control it.

Learn how to configure panel programs in your eBilling system, from firm status fields and rate enforcement to matter routing and compliance reporting.

How many law firms should a legal department use? See what benchmarks show by department size, what drives panel bloat, and how to find your right number.

Experience-based guidance to onboarding a law firm onto your panel: guideline acceptance, rate loading, eBilling setup, and the checklist that prevents billing disputes.

Panel counsel are law firms pre-approved to handle an organization's legal work. Learn what the term means in corporate legal and insurance contexts.