{"id":130408,"date":"2025-08-13T13:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/13\/soaring-hourly-rates-rising-need-for-geopolitical-guidance-forcing-gcs-to-confront-runaway-outside-counsel-costs\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T13:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:20:13","slug":"soaring-hourly-rates-rising-need-for-geopolitical-guidance-forcing-gcs-to-confront-runaway-outside-counsel-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/13\/soaring-hourly-rates-rising-need-for-geopolitical-guidance-forcing-gcs-to-confront-runaway-outside-counsel-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Soaring Hourly Rates, Rising Need for Geopolitical Guidance Forcing GCs to Confront Runaway Outside Counsel Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI’m seeing more and more clients push back. That’s why you’re seeing the realization rates drop,” said Ken Callander, managing principal of the in-house consultancy Value Strategies.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI’m seeing more and more clients push back. That’s why you’re seeing the realization rates drop,” said Ken Callander, managing principal of the in-house consultancy Value Strategies.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI’m seeing more and more clients push back. That’s why you’re seeing the realization rates drop,” said Ken Callander, managing principal of the in-house consultancy Value Strategies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI’m seeing more and more clients push back. That’s why you’re seeing the realization rates drop,” said Ken Callander, managing principal of the in-house consultancy Value Strategies. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":130409,"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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/legal-news-OmbBkl.jpg?fit=768%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130408","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=130408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}