Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions Discusses New Law Firm Rate Findings on Legal Speak Podcast

ELM Solutions’ Nathan Cemenska shares data and insights from the company’s most recent LegalVIEW Insights report

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nathan Cemenska, Director of Legal Operations and Industry Insights at Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions, is featured on the latest installment of Law.com’s popular Legal Speak podcast, where he shares new insights into how corporate legal departments can successfully negotiate against substantial rate increases requested by some of the industry’s largest firms.

Cemenska elaborates on data sourced from the most recent entry in the company’s ongoing LegalVIEW Insights report series, which leverages more than $155 billion in legal invoice data to offer a deeper dive into the trends, relationships and opportunities continuing to push the legal ecosystem forward. Published earlier this month, the LegalVIEW Insights 2023-1 report found that corporate legal departments may hold more pricing negotiation power over both large and small law firms than previously realized, with approximately 32% of the timekeepers practicing inside the Am Law 100 receiving no rate increases at all during the period July 2021 to June 2022.

Cemenska tells Legal Speak host Zack Needles that in-house legal teams can bolster their negotiating power with large- and medium-sized law firms alike by gradually building, testing, and – should the results warrant it – expanding their relationships with smaller, often less expensive firms. Growing a diverse portfolio of legal service providers takes time, but the investment can pay dividends.

“Buyers at corporate law departments that have invested in cultivating relationships with a broad range of trusted law firm partners will find themselves in a strong position to negotiate rates,” Cemenska says. “However, that requires foresight in addition to an intimate understanding of an organization’s legal spend.”

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ELM Solutions is the market-leading global provider of enterprise legal spend and matter management and legal analytics solutions. The company provides a comprehensive suite of tools that address the growing needs of corporate legal operations departments to increase operational efficiency and reduce costs. Corporate legal and insurance claims departments trust its innovative technology and end-to-end customer experience to drive world-class business outcomes.

Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions was named a leader in both the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Enterprise Legal Spend Management 2020 Vendor Assessment and IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Enterprise Matter Management 2020 Vendor Assessment. The company’s award-winning products include Passport®, one of the highest rated ELM solutions in the latest Hyperion MarketView™ Legal Market Intelligence Report and TyMetrix® 360°, the industry’s leading SaaS-based e-billing and matter management solution. ELM Solutions’ LegalVIEW® portfolio of legal analytics solutions is based upon the industry’s largest and most comprehensive legal spend database, with more than $155 billion in invoices.

About Wolters Kluwer

Wolters Kluwer (EURONEXT: WKL) is a global leader in professional information, software solutions, and services for the healthcare, tax and accounting, financial and corporate compliance, legal and regulatory, and corporate performance and ESG sectors. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services.

Wolters Kluwer reported 2022 annual revenues of €5.5 billion. The group serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs approximately 20,000 people worldwide. The company is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands.

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