The BIALL Law Firm Library Survey has information on budget for hardcopy and online resources vs a firm's annual global turnover. See http://biall.org.uk/publications-2/ and log in to view (Members only)

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Library spend as a percentage of turnover (excluding staff costs) as supplied by annoymous contributors to the Lis-Law email request:

Results for 2014 (figures mostly releate to full year 2013):

0.69

0.8

0.9

0.9

1.03

1.1

1.2

Results for 2010 or 2011 (TBC):

0.57

0.67

0.70

0.75

1

1

1

1.09

1.2

1.23

1.4

1.4

Results for 2009 or 2010 (TBC):

0.66

0.68

0.72

0.77

0.96

1.03

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