Legal Depmartment KPIs, Metrics & Benchmarks

KPIs & Metrics to Measure and Manage Corporate Legal Performance

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What are Legal KPIs?

Legal KPIs and metrics measure and monitor the performance of the company’s dispute, litigation, and settlement efforts. Often, these metrics include not just standard courtroom activities, but also efforts dealing with intellectual property, administrative and human resources support, contract dispute negotiation, and litigation management.

Using Legal KPIs to Maintain Legal Operations Integrity

There’s more to a legal department’s metrics than just the monetary value of their efforts. To justify their spend, legal departments must be constantly prepared with quantitative data that speaks to the legal group’s efficiency, internal counsel performance, maximization of resources, and more. With the right legal KPIs, it becomes easier for corporate counsel to manage and improve their performance and efficiency.

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This 24-page benchmarking report includes benchmarking data for 9 Legal Department performance metrics, or KPIs, including Attorneys per Paralegal, Legal Department Expense per Employee and...

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Legal Department Expense per Employee

The total expense incurred by the Legal Department divided by the number of employees working for the company over the same period of time.

KPI Type : Cost

Formula : Total Legal Department Expense Incurred / Number of Company-Wide Employees

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6 Legal KPI Examples for Managing Corporate Counsel Operations

When used correctly, legal KPIs can provide insight into a department’s various litigation activities, whether in corporate governance, government affairs, intellectual property, or other areas. Unfortunately, many departments either don’t track any metrics or track only surface-level data that doesn’t offer any valuable insight. When using structured data, however, legal departments can measure KPIs, such as the following 6 examples, that will address specific quantitative benchmarks:

  1. 1.Average Total Cost of Case
  2. 2.Cycle Time: Final Patent Decision
  3. 3.Legal Expense per Attorney
  4. 4.Copyright Filing Error Rate
  5. 5.Legal Department Staffing Ratio
  6. 6.Pending Cases per Litigation Attorney

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Legal Department Expense per Employee

The total expense incurred by the Legal Department divided by the number of employees working for the company over the same period of time.

KPI Type : Cost

Formula : Total Legal Department Expense Incurred / Number of Company-Wide Employees

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Total Revenue per Legal Department Employee

The total dollar amount of revenue generated by the company divided by the number of Legal Department employees (includes attorneys, paralegals and legal administrative staff) working for th...

KPI Type : Organizational

Formula : Total Company-Wide Revenue Generated / Number of Legal Department Employees

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Pending Cases per Litigation Attorney

The total number of pending (active cases that have not yet been closed/settled) legal cases divided by the number of in-house litigation attorneys working for the company at the same point...

KPI Type : Productivity

Formula : Total Number of Pending Cases / Number of In-House Attorneys

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Active Legal Cases per Billion Dollars of Revenue

The total number of pending (active cases that have not yet been closed/settled) legal cases divided by each one billion dollars of revenue earned by the company over the same period of time...

KPI Type : Volume

Formula : Total Number of Pending Cases / Each One Billion Dollars of Revenue Earned

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Attorneys per Paralegal

The total number of in-house attorneys working for the company divided by the number of paralegals working for the company at the same point in time.

KPI Type : Organizational

Formula : Total Number of In-House Attorneys / Total Number of Paralegals

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Legal Department Expense as a Percentage of Total Expense

The expense incurred by the Legal Department divided by the total, company-wide expense incurred over the same period of time, as a percentage.

KPI Type : Cost

Formula : (Legal Department Expense Incurred / Total Company-Wide Expense Incurred) * 100

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Legal Department Expense as a Percentage of Total Revenue

The expense incurred by the Legal Department divided by the total revenue generated by the company over the same period of time, as a percentage.

KPI Type : Cost

Formula : (Legal Department Expense Incurred / Total Revenue Generated) * 100

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Legal Department Staffing Ratio

The total number of company-wide employees divided by the number of Legal Department employees (across all the Legal function's sub-groups) working for the company at the same point in time,...

KPI Type : Organizational

Formula : Total Number of Company-Wide Employees / Total Number of Legal Department Employees

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Law Firms Employed Per Million of Outside Counsel Spend

The total number of outside (external) law firms employed by the company divided by each one million dollars of outside counsel spending (fees paid to outside law firms) incurred over the sa...

KPI Type : Cost

Formula : Total Number of Outside Law Firms Employed / Each Million Dollars of Outside Counsel Spent

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Legal KPI Encyclopedia

This document defines over 40 Legal Department KPIs, including metric definitions for Intellectual Property, Legal Administrative Support and more. These KPIs are further categorized into se...

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Attorneys per Legal Administrative Employee

The number of attorneys divided by the total number of legal administrative employees (executive assistant/admin, document control specialist, etc.) working for the company at the same point...

KPI Type : Organizational

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Legal Support Employees as a Percentage of Total Legal Department Employees

The number of employees working within the Legal Support function (paralegal, assistants, document control specialist, etc.) divided by the total number of employees working within the Legal...

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Legal Expense per Legal Support Employee

The total expense incurred by the Legal Department over a certain period of time divided by the number of Legal Support employees (paralegal, assistant, document control specialist, etc.) wo...

KPI Type : Cost

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Organizational Structure: Legal Department

A yes/no metric indicating whether the Legal Department is centralized (all employees in a single location) or decentralized.

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Total Volume: Litigation Cases

The total number of litigation cases undertaken by the company over a certain period of time.

KPI Type : Volume

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Management Levels: Legal Department

The total number of management levels, or layers, in the Legal Department.

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Span of Control: Legal Department

The average number of Legal Department employees reporting to each manager working within the Legal Department.

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Total Expense: Legal Department

The total expense incurred by the Legal Department over a certain period of time. Total expense includes labor, benefits, occupancy, and technology costs.

KPI Type : Cost

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Total Employees: Legal Department

The total number of employees working within the Legal Department (includes both attorneys and legal administrative and support staff) at a certain point in time. Employee headcount may be s...

KPI Type : Organizational

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Total Employees: Legal Support

The total number of employees working within the Legal Support function (paralegal, assistant, document control specialist, etc.) at a certain point in time. Legal Support employee headcount...

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Unit Cost: Compliance-Related Lawsuit

The total cost of managing compliance-related lawsuits brought against the company divided by the number of lawsuits undertaken over a certain period of time.

KPI Type : Cost

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Total Employees: Attorneys

The total number of attorneys working for the company at a certain point in time. Attorney headcount may be segmented by location, product or team.

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Patent Filing Error Rate

The number of patents filed with errors (incorrect company name, product name, missing documentation, etc.) divided by the total number of patents filed over the same period of time, as a pe...

KPI Type : Quality

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Trademark Filing Error Rate

The number of trademarks filed with errors (incorrect company name, product name, missing documentation, etc.) divided by the total number of trademarks filed over the same period of time, a...

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Copyright Filing Error Rate

The number of copyrights filed with errors (incorrect company name, product name, missing documentation, etc.) divided by the total number of copyrights filed over the same period of time, a...

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Legal Expense per Attorney

The total expense incurred by the Legal Department over a certain period of time divided by the number of attorneys working for the company.

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Patents Filed per Legal Department Employee

The total number of patents filed over a certain period of time divided by the number of employees working within the Legal Department.

KPI Type : Productivity

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Trademarks Filed per Legal Department Employee

The total number of trademarks filed over a certain period of time divided by the number of employees working within the Legal Department.

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Copyrights Filed per Legal Department Employee

The total number of copyrights filed over a certain period of time divided by the number of employees working within the Legal Department.

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