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The Maturation of Competitive Intelligence in Law Firms

Advances in technology have given clients more information about the cost of legal services and where else that client might go looking for them, leading to increased demand for discounts and other alternative fee arrangements at a time when in-house legal departments are under rising pressure to cut costs. Here's how to use competitive intelligence.

11 minute read August 01, 2016 at 11:44 AM
By
Rod Osborne
The Maturation of Competitive Intelligence in Law Firms

When I was a young lawyer ' and all I ever was as a lawyer was young , having run screaming from the practice, if not the profession, as a fifth-year associate ' I was given a project that didn't have a proper name at the time, but today would fall under the loose heading of “competitive intelligence.”

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