Spending to outsource legal work more than doubled in the last decade as hundreds of internal positions stayed vacant: government data
The data 'highlights a real and growing gap between the federal government’s legal needs and its in-house capacity,' says Gregory Harlow, president of the Association of Justice Counsel.
The federal government’s expenditures on outsourced legal work have more than doubled since 2015, despite hundreds of vacant in-house counsel positions staying open over the last decade, new government data reveals.
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