On in-house legal resourcing, Sarah Ingwersen of Taylor Root, drawing on the search firm’s 2026-2027 global in-house survey, has numbers every general counsel will recognize: 46.4% of respondents said their workload expanded significantly over two years, and 45.3% saw no matching increase in resources. Some 40.5% used interim lawyers in the past year, 37.3% leaned harder on outside counsel and 52.5% used AI to help with the load.
The kicker: 44.1% say AI has not yet cut their reliance on outside counsel. So the headcount ask is not going away. For lawyers, that is good news. Interim roles often turn permanent, and a team drowning in work is a team that hires. Our guide to managing outside counsel covers the buy-or-build call, and our earlier Taylor Root salary guide post has the pay side. Openings are on our in-house counsel jobs page.
As Ingwersen puts it: “There is no single model that will suit every organisation. Permanent recruitment, interim lawyers, external counsel and technology each solve different problems, and the most effective approach often combines them.”
Read: How in-house legal teams are adapting their resourcing strategies at Taylor Root