Legal staff per size of revenue

Legal[None]Number

Definition

Number of legal staff per billion (or othe size) of company's revenue. Include all employees of the law department so there is no incentive to distort the mix of personnel. It is quite typical for U.S. law departments to have one lawyer for every nonlawyer. Typical U.S. companies have about 7 to 13 legal staff per billion dollars of revenue.

Formula

(Total legal staff) divided by (Total revenue)

Tags

staff, employee, legal, department