expected to reach 76.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2021. These values only include spending on legal services by companies with over one billion U.S. dollars in revenue.
Spending on outside legal counsel is the largest segment of the U.S. legal services industry, totaling 71.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2021. This figure has been steadily growing since 2015, and is Size of the legal services market in the United States between 2020 and 2022, by category (in billion U.S. dollars)
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BTI Consulting. "Size of The Legal Services Market in The United States between 2020 and 2022, by Category (in Billion U.S. Dollars)." Statista, Statista Inc., 13 Jan 2022, https://www.statista.com/statistics/741393/size-of-the-legal-services-market-by-category-us/
BTI Consulting, Size of the legal services market in the United States between 2020 and 2022, by category (in billion U.S. dollars) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/741393/size-of-the-legal-services-market-by-category-us/ (last visited May 02, 2024)
Size of the legal services market in the United States between 2020 and 2022, by category (in billion U.S. dollars) [Graph], BTI Consulting, January 13, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/741393/size-of-the-legal-services-market-by-category-us/