Procurement & Spend Benchmarks
Outside counsel control is moving from reporting to early-warning systems
Brightflag’s 2026 outside counsel benchmarking page emphasizes billing issues, outside counsel performance and AI’s impact on legal billing, while Onit’s Legal Spend Spiral warns that spend problems build through missed forecasts, invoice pileups and disconnected systems.
BY ECONOMICS DESK · MAY 7, 2026 · 1 MIN READ
Brightflag’s 2026 outside counsel benchmarking page emphasizes billing issues, outside counsel performance and AI’s impact on legal billing, while Onit’s Legal Spend Spiral warns that spend problems build through missed forecasts, invoice pileups and disconnected systems. Together they show procurement moving toward proactive matter controls, benchmarked billing review and earlier intervention.
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