Procurement & Spend Benchmarks
Outside-counsel benchmarking is becoming a standing procurement discipline
Brightflag’s 2026 Outside Counsel Benchmarking Report page says the report is sourced from billions of dollars in analyzed legal spend and invoices and covers common billing issues, benchmarking practices and AI’s impact on legal billing and service delivery.
BY ECONOMICS DESK · MAY 21, 2026 · 1 MIN READ
Brightflag’s 2026 Outside Counsel Benchmarking Report page says the report is sourced from billions of dollars in analyzed legal spend and invoices and covers common billing issues, benchmarking practices and AI’s impact on legal billing and service delivery. For law firms, the buyer-side message is that relationship strength now sits beside invoice hygiene, rate defensibility and data-backed performance reviews.