Outside counsel hourly rate change

Coordinated annual legal-spend benchmark report family published by LexisNexis Legal & Professional since 2013. The current 2026 edition is available through a standing required-field download form and uses actual invoices paid to law firms for work completed in 2025. Public current materials document pooled outside-counsel hourly-rate, practice-area, global-city/market, law-firm-tier share-of-wallet, and alternative-fee-arrangement benchmarks; coordinated editions also document blended matter-rate percentiles, timekeeper tiers, rate changes, and law-firm consolidation. Reader access does not require contributing invoices. Excludes CounselLink customer records, dashboards, budgets, negotiated panel rates, and buyer-specific Strategic Services analyses.