Labor and tax areas dominate processes and resources of large companies

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The labor and tax areas are responsible for the largest volumes of cases and receive the most resources from companies' legal departments. This is what the Jurídica SA survey shows , commissioned by Torre Comunicação and carried out by the Brazilian Institute of Research and Data Analysis (IBPad) with 100 legal directors (or equivalent positions) from the Valor 1000 list , from the newspaper Valor Econômico .


ConJur presents excerpts from the study exclusively this Saturday (7/9) . The complete survey will be released next Wednesday (12/9) at 9:30 am, in São Paulo.

IBPAD/Torre ComunicaçãoThe labor field was highlighted by 91% of executives as having the highest volume of processes in their company. In second place was tax, indicated by 75% of legal directors. Well below are commercial and Consumer Law actions (both with 19% of mentions), environmental (7%), administrative (6%), corporate (3%), competition and B2B Lead criminal actions (both with 1%).
Likewise, the labor area was indicated as one of the three that receive the most resources from the company by 76% of executives. Again, second place went to the tax field, mentioned by 68% of directors.

The other sectors that receive the most investment are commercial (39% of citations), environmental (28%), administrative (13%), Consumer Law (12%), competition (4%), criminal (3%), social security and union (both with 2%) and technology (1%).

Eyes on the future
The directors were also asked about how the company sees the legal department in 10 years. For 38% of them, the sector will be more computerized, and for 18%, it will be more automated. Another 31% estimated that the area will have greater quality, while 18% predict that it will have greater importance in business.

IBPAD/Torre ComunicaçãoThe issue of the size of the legal department divided those interviewed: 27% believe it will be smaller, while 15% believe it will be larger. The same percentage of executives said that demands should be more internalized. 5% believe that there will be greater outsourcing for newsstands.
In addition, executives were asked to give a rating from zero to 10 (zero being a bad impression and 10 being a great impression) to the factors that influence hiring a law firm. The fact that the firm's lawyers have postgraduate degrees and its good reputation received a score of nine.



With eight, there are points such as the bank's ability to maintain, charge a reasonable amount, have renowned professionals, and the relationship of trust with company executives.

The firm's negative exposure in the press, although occasional, does not count much for legal directors: it received a score of four.