In-House Lawyers Say They Love Creative Fees, But Use Plateaus

Legal departments almost universally praise alternative fee arrangements, but they aren’t using them more, a new survey by Norton Rose Fulbright has found.

The 2017 Litigation Trends Annual Survey found that 96 percent of 318 corporate counsel in the United States and abroad were satisfied with the quality of work they were provided under AFAs. More than a third of respondents said they expect to increase their use of AFAs in the coming year.

However, the same proportion of in-house counsel said the same thing in Norton Rose’s 2016 survey, and yet, the use of AFAs — 56 percent of ...