The PERSUIT Data Advantage

The only legal data built from actual transactions.

Most legal benchmarking data comes from surveys. Firms self-report. Samples are small. Numbers lag by 12 to 18 months. PERSUIT data comes from $22B+ in real proposals, negotiated in real time, between real buyers and real firms. There is no comparable dataset in the market.

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200+
Enterprise legal teams contributing live data
Real-time
Data updated continuously — not annually from surveys
4,800+
Law firms in the dataset, including 100% of the AmLaw 100

Explore the data. Every decision covered.

Built on $22B+ in real data. Here are three ways to put it to work.

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Continuously Updated
PERSUIT 50
The definitive ranking of the top 50 law firms on PERSUIT — measured by win rate, pricing competitiveness, matter performance, and client retention. Not reputation. Not marketing. Results.

Updated continuously as new RFPs close and matters resolve. The only ranking that reflects what's happening in the market right now.
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Live Market Data
Rate Trends
A continuously updated view into rate movements across practice areas, geographies, firm tiers, and matter types — drawn entirely from negotiated transactions on PERSUIT.

Know what rates are actually being agreed to, not what firms say they charge. Walk into every negotiation with the current market in your hands.
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Trial Access
Benchmarking
Explore PERSUIT's proprietary benchmarking data directly inside the platform. See how your spend, rates, and firm mix compare to peers at companies like yours.

No demo required to start. This is PERSUIT's data doing the selling — because once you see what you've been missing, the conversation changes.
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What The Data Actually Shows

The kind of insight you can't get anywhere else.

PERSUIT's benchmarking data is built from real transactions — not surveys, not self-reported estimates. Every data point is a negotiated rate, a completed matter, a real billing outcome. Here's what that means in practice.

Rates
AmLaw 100 M&A partner rates have risen 31% since 2021. Most panel negotiations happened before 2023.
The rate your relationship partner quoted as "consistent with market" may be consistent with 2021's market. PERSUIT benchmarks are current — drawn from proposals submitted to Fortune 1000 companies in the last 12 months, by firm, by practice area, by geography. The number you see today reflects what the market actually paid this quarter.
Selection
The lowest bid wins only 48% of the time. The other 52% went to firms that weren't cheapest.
This changes how you negotiate. If you're selecting on value — not just price — you need data on what value actually looks like across 40,000+ matters. Which firms deliver what they propose? Which under-staff? Which over-bill? PERSUIT tracks all of it, and it's available when you're making the decision, not six months later.
Competitive process
Companies running competitive process on matters over $500K save an average of 26% — without switching firms.
The savings don't come from replacing your panel. They come from asking firms to compete — which they're willing to do when the process is structured and the data is shared. 4,800+ firms are already on PERSUIT. They know the platform. They show up prepared.
e-billing
Most billing guideline violations aren't malicious. They're structural — firms don't know what you agreed to.
When rates negotiated in sourcing flow directly into billing enforcement, violations drop — not because firms are caught more, but because the agreed terms are visible to both sides in real time. BillClear handles this at the point of submission. Disputes become rare because the discrepancies never happen.
The Data Advantage

No surveys. All spend.

There are dozens of legal benchmarking products. Most run on surveys — firms self-report rates, clients estimate spend, analysts average the answers and publish a report six months later. PERSUIT's data comes from a different place entirely.

Every other benchmark source
Survey data, self-reported
Firms estimate their own rates. Clients estimate their own spend. Both have incentives to shade the numbers. The result is a dataset that reflects what the market wants to say it paid — not what it actually paid.
Published 6–12 months late
The "current" benchmark in most reports reflects what the market looked like a year ago — before the rate increases your firms already sent you. You're negotiating 2025 rates with 2024 data.
Averages without context
"The average partner rate in M&A is $X" tells you nothing useful. Useful is: what did companies with your revenue, in your industry, pay for this matter type, with this firm tier, last quarter.
No outcome data
Rate surveys can tell you what firms charge. They can't tell you which firms perform, which over-staff, or which meet the budgets they proposed. Those are different — and more important — questions.
PERSUIT's data layer
Transaction data, not estimates
Real proposals, real awarded rates, real invoiced amounts. Every data point is a completed transaction — not a survey response. $22B+ in proposal data, structured and searchable.
Updated continuously
The benchmark you see this morning reflects proposals submitted this quarter. When firms push a rate increase in January, the data reflects January. You negotiate with current information.
Segmented to your situation
Filter by revenue band, industry, matter type, geography, firm tier, AFA structure. The benchmark becomes relevant to your actual decision — not an industry average that may have nothing to do with your spend profile.
Performance tracked alongside price
Billing accuracy, budget variance, guideline compliance. The full picture of firm value — not just what they charge to get in the door. This data took ten years and $22B in proposals to build.
Who Uses This Data

The same dataset. Different questions answered.

Your panel decisions deserve better data than your last RFP.

GCs making firm selection and panel strategy decisions need to know how firms actually perform — not how they present. PERSUIT data gives you the honest picture: win rates, pricing behaviour, AFA adoption, and how your firms compare to what others at your scale are paying.

See the GC View
Validate your panel against peer companies of comparable size and spend
Understand where your rates sit relative to the actual market — not survey data
See which firms are winning on price vs. winning on performance
Make the business case for panel consolidation with numbers Finance trusts
Walk into annual firm reviews with current market data, not instinct
Stop running your spend program on incomplete data.

Legal Ops teams are accountable for spend performance but often working with data that's too old, too aggregated, or too easy for firms to game. PERSUIT gives you transaction-level intelligence — by firm, by practice area, by matter type — that turns spend management into a real discipline.

See the Legal Ops View
Benchmark rates by practice area against companies with comparable outside counsel spend
Identify which firms are drifting from agreed rates and by how much
Track AFA adoption trends across your panel and the broader market
Build the quarterly CFO report in minutes, not days
Access trial benchmarking to test PERSUIT's data before committing
Know if you're paying litigation rates that actually reflect the market.

Litigation spend is often the largest, least predictable line in a legal budget. PERSUIT data gives Heads of Litigation visibility into how litigation rates and matter structures compare across the market — and which firms deliver value when it counts.

See the Litigation View
Compare litigation partner rates across AmLaw firms for your key jurisdictions
See how contingency and AFA structures are being used in litigation nationally
Understand matter budgeting accuracy — which firms forecast well, which don't
Identify firms winning on litigation RFPs at companies like yours
Benchmark your litigation spend mix against industry peers

See what your peers are actually paying. Not what firms say they charge.

Start with trial access to PERSUIT's benchmarking data — no demo, no sales call required. Or talk to us about the full platform.

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