In-house legal departments are more pressed than ever to control legal costs, while at the same time they are being charged with assuming greater risk management responsibilities that come with increased government regulations and compliance workloads.

In June 2009, a LexisNexis CounselLink study conducted by Corporate Counsel was published by Incisive Media, which found that 68 percent of in-house legal professionals feel pressure to reduce the law department budget, and nearly 59 percent of them already have experienced actual reductions in…