{"id":130163,"date":"2025-08-11T07:33:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/11\/stats-of-the-week-meeting-in-the-middle\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T07:33:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:33:46","slug":"stats-of-the-week-meeting-in-the-middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/11\/stats-of-the-week-meeting-in-the-middle\/","title":{"rendered":"Stat(s) Of The Week: Meeting In The Middle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Law firms and in-house counsel are light years apart on the role of the billable hour, but the two groups still find some encouraging common ground on pricing models.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A new survey by iManage and Above the Law asked law firms and corporate law departments which arrangements would better drive alignment between the two groups.<\/p>\n

Private practice lawyers were more than five times as likely as their in-house counterparts to choose hourly billing, while in-house counsel were more than twice as likely to choose value-based or outcome-driven pricing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Other models, however, had the two groups more aligned.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPerhaps negotiating a blended model that combines alternative fee arrangements and hourly rates is where the two groups can ultimately come together,\u201d the report says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

GCs And Law Firm Attorneys: Perfect Together?<\/a> [On-Demand Webinar]<\/p>\n

Good Counsel: Law Firm And In-House Partners Define Their Future Strategy<\/a> [iManage]<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Barker is the director of content marketing for Breaking Media. Feel free to\u00a0email him<\/a>\u00a0with questions or comments and to\u00a0connect on LinkedIn<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The post Stat(s) Of The Week: Meeting In The Middle<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Law firms and in-house counsel are light years apart on the role of the billable hour, but the two groups still find some encouraging common ground on pricing models.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A new survey by iManage and Above the Law asked law firms and corporate law departments which arrangements would better drive alignment between the two groups.<\/p>\n

Private practice lawyers were more than five times as likely as their in-house counterparts to choose hourly billing, while in-house counsel were more than twice as likely to choose value-based or outcome-driven pricing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Other models, however, had the two groups more aligned.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n

\u201cPerhaps negotiating a blended model that combines alternative fee arrangements and hourly rates is where the two groups can ultimately come together,\u201d the report says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

GCs And Law Firm Attorneys: Perfect Together?<\/a> [On-Demand Webinar]<\/p>\n

Good Counsel: Law Firm And In-House Partners Define Their Future Strategy<\/a> [iManage]<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Barker is the director of content marketing for Breaking Media. Feel free to\u00a0email him<\/a>\u00a0with questions or comments and to\u00a0connect on LinkedIn<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The post Stat(s) Of The Week: Meeting In The Middle<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Law firms and in-house counsel are light years apart on the role of the billable hour, but the two groups still find some encouraging common ground on pricing models.\u00a0 A new survey by iManage and Above the Law asked law firms and corporate law departments which arrangements would better drive alignment between the two groups. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":130020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/stat-of-the-week-image-eZO4GY.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}