Datamonitor's Legal Services: Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the legal services industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies

* Incorporates in-depth five forces competitive environment analysis and scorecards

* Covers the Global, European and Asia-Pacific markets as well as individual chapters on 5 major markets (France, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US).

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

The global legal services market grew by 6.6% in 2006 to reach a value of $433.8 billion.

In 2011, the global legal services market is forecast to have a value of $600 billion, an increase of 38.3% since 2006.

The global legal services market grew by 3% in 2006 to reach a volume of 2,346.6 thousand legal professionals.

In 2011, the global legal services market is forecast to have a volume of 2,718.3 thousand legal professionals, an increase of 15.8% since 2006.
Market Segmentation
The Americas accounts for 61.9% of the global legal services market.

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Market Definition

The legal services market includes practioners of law operating in every sector of the legal spectrum. These include commercial, criminal, legal aid, insolvency, labor/industrial, family and taxation law. The market's value is calculated as the total revenues received by law companies for services rendered. These values include all applicable taxes. Market volumes in this report refer to the total number of legal professionals. Any currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2006 annual average exchange rates.

For the purpose of this report the Americas comprises Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the US.

Europe comprises Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

Asia-Pacific comprises Australia, China, Japan, India, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.

The global figure comprises the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe.