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Fulbright & Jaworski Takes Pulse of 300 Corporate Counsel for Survey of U.S. Litigation Trends
What are the biggest litigation concerns right now in corporate America? What industries face the highest incidence of legal action? How do corporate law departments regard their litigation firms? And by what criteria do general counsel select the firms that litigate on their behalf, and what areas of legal service do they feel need the greatest improvement?
These were just a few of the questions kicking around last year among members of an emerging issues group within the litigation practice at Fulbright & Jaworski. Fulbright litigators wanted more than intuition and anecdote to tell them where the business was developing, and how it might be changing. Despite a healthy practice and no shortage of work in the U.S. and internationally, the emerging issues group thought there might be a way to apply some hard numbers to the American litigation marketplace, and to answer the age-old question, how can the firm enhance its service to its own corporate clients.
Indeed, there was. With considerable investment and resources put to work, Fulbright recently issued a broad Survey of U.S. Litigation Trends, drawing on input from 300 corporate counsel. Companies from 41 states in eight major industries were represented; responding companies reported average gross annual revenues of $600 million (30% averaged revenues of $1 billion or more). Respondents were the genuine article – 83% identified themselves as general counsel or chief legal officer, with the remainder comprised of senior staff attorneys. It could be the largest study ever conducted of corporate litigation issues. Fulbright hopes the survey will establish important benchmarks for assessing the litigation needs among large companies in the U.S.
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