The Q2 2024 Thomson Reuters Law Firm Financial Index (LFFI), powered by Financial Insights, showed continued strong growth for law firms amid a resurgence in transactional practices and solid fundamentals in the second quarter of 2024. Released today by Thomson Reuters, the report showed a healthy outlook for law firms with overall demand up 2.4% …
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“Tech spending remains especially hot:” Reactions to the Thomson Reuters Q1 2024 Law Firm Financial Index
“While overhead expenses continued to cool during the first part of 2024, tech spending remains especially hot,” Andrew Maloney noted in Law.com’s coverage of the Q1 2024 Thomson Reuters Law Firm Financial Index. “Taking inflation into account, law firms are investing in technology at their most rapid pace since at least 2014, the report noted. …
Record Revenue and Rate Growth: Top Takeaways from Q1 2024 Thomson Reuters Law Firm Financial Index
Law firms achieved elevated revenue growth in the first quarter of 2024 and continued to heavily invest in technology. These are among the findings of the Q1 2024 Thomson Reuters Law Firm Financial Index (LFFI), powered by Financial Insights. Legal Current shares key takeaways from the report, which found that law firms returned to a …
Firms Reconsider How Technology Shapes Productivity as Law Firm Market Returns to Profitability
Law firms showed resilience in 2023, taking advantage of shifts in market demand and aggressively raising rates while exercising restraint in costs, particularly talent costs for associates. This balanced approach of managing for both topline growth and cost controls paid dividends for firms; if they continue to successfully execute on those strategies, the market is …
Thomson Reuters Future of Professionals Report: Top Takeaways for the Legal Market
Improving productivity, driving law firm profitability, and providing high-quality advice to clients are among the top motivators for legal professionals to embrace AI, including generative AI. These are among the findings of the Future of Professionals Report, which surveyed more than 1,200 professionals in legal, tax and accounting, global trade, and risk and compliance industries. …
Law Firm Recovery Continues: Takeaways from Q2 2023 Thomson Reuters Law Firm Financial Index
The strong start for the law firm market in 2023 continued in the second quarter with robust rate growth and demand up for the second consecutive quarter. These are among the findings of the Q2 2023 Thomson Reuters Law Firm Financial Index (LFFI) powered by Financial Insights. Legal Current highlights top takeaways from the report, …
Q1 2023 Thomson Reuters Law Firm Financial Index: Top Takeaways
The law firm market rebounded in the first quarter due to improved growth and surging rates, according to the Q1 2023 Thomson Reuters Law Firm Financial Index (LFFI) powered by Financial Insights. However, the Thomson Reuters report noted that the recovery was uneven and uncertainty remains as to the direction of the market going forward. …
Q4 2022 Thomson Reuters Law Firm Financial Index: Top Five Takeaways
Law firm profitability fell for a fifth consecutive quarter in Q4 2022, according to the Q4 2022 Thomson Reuters Law Firm Financial Index, (LFFI) powered by Financial Insights. The report notes that demand, productivity, and expense challenges “have nearly eaten through the record profit gains of 2021” as firms contend with multiple ongoing issues. However, …
State of the Legal Market Report: Predicting the Factors That Will Shape 2023
Ahead of the 2023 Report on the State of the Legal Market – the annual report issued jointly by the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession at Georgetown Law and the Thomson Reuters Institute – Legal Current is looking back at the trends that shaped the industry in 2022. The 2023 report, which Thomson …
2022 Highlights: Law Firm Financial Index Reports Highlight Trends in Law Firm Profitability
Legal Current’s year-in-review series looks back at 2022 milestones for the Legal Professionals business. Today we revisit the quarterly Law Firm Financial Index (LFFI) reports from the Thomson Reuters Institute. LFFI is a composite index of law firm market performance using real-time data drawn from major law firms in the United States and key international …
