Finalizing Your 2027 Legal Budget: A Working Guide
A practical guide for in-house legal leaders to plan for more demand without more budget or headcount.
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Legal leaders are being asked to expand their impact while managing constrained staffing and changing AI costs. This guide offers practical considerations and a checklist for aligning resources to priority work, governing variable technology spend, making deliberate outside-counsel tradeoffs, and measuring the outcomes the business cares about.
Key Takeaways
- Build visibility into usage, model selection, access, and total technology spend.
- Decide deliberately which work stays in-house, moves to technology, or goes to outside counsel.
- Measure value through productivity, adoption, and business outcomes—not activity alone.
- Treat AI as a variable cost you can forecast and govern.