The Annual Law Department Operations Survey was created in 2008 to give law departments a consistent platform to benchmark themselves and shed light on the emerging profession of law department management. The oldest and most comprehensive law department operations survey in the marketplace, the 33-page 2025 Survey Report includes more than 100 data points on the current and future state of legal department operations.
The yearly survey is created and published by Blickstein Group with the advisory board of LDOs from Fortune 300 companies, who consult on the survey.
For more information about the surveys or to purchase full survey result packages, please contact Sam Moon at sam@blicksteingroup.com.
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2025 LDO Survey
The 18th Annual Law Department Operations Survey Report is NOW AVAILABLE!
Legal operations has evolved from an emerging function to an indispensable business partner. But the job has never been more demanding.
The 2025 Blickstein Group LDO Survey results reveal a function that is absorbing broader mandates, tighter budgets, aging technology, and rising expectations from every direction. One where AI provides enormous opportunities but also major challenges. The report highlights key findings, data, and analysis from the survey, providing a deeper understanding into:
■ The tension between legal operations’ extremely broad portfolio of tactical responsibilities and the expectations to drive the modernization of the legal function ■ Modernizing the legal function while facing obstacles in finding budget and pushing change management ■ Challenges in collaborating with law firms and ALSPs as the entire industry is in flux ■ Fighting through pressure from the enterprise to reduce costs at a time when workloads and complexity are on the rise ■ How to prepare for how the legal industry may look in the future
Additionally, this 33-page Survey Report includes more than 100 data points on the current and future state of legal department operations.
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