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.
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.
01. 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.
02. 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.
03. 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.
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
- Published 6–12 months late
- Averages without context
- No outcome data
PERSUIT's data layer
- Transaction data, not estimates
- Updated continuously
- Segmented to your situation
- Performance tracked alongside price
Who Uses This Data
General CounselLegal OperationsHead of Litigation
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.
Legal Ops
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.
Heads of Litigation
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 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.