Subscriber Voices · Singapore Legal Market
What Legal Professionals Say About the Research
Feedback from managing partners, legal operations leads and general counsel across Singapore who draw on Decretum bulletins in their day-to-day work.
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Average Subscriber Rating
92%
Annual Renewal Rate
Subscriber Feedback
From Our Subscriber Community
Jonathan Tan
Managing Partner · Singapore
"We have used the compensation benchmarks from the talent bulletin in three consecutive years now. The fact that the methodology is consistent means we can actually show the managing committee a trend, not just a single data point. That makes the conversation about salary structures considerably easier."
April 2025
Priya Lakshmi
General Counsel · Regional HQ, Singapore
"The technology adoption bulletin gave us a clear picture of where our in-house team stood relative to comparable departments. It is not anecdotal — there are actual numbers. I used charts directly from the report in a budget conversation with the CFO. That is the kind of material that changes outcomes."
March 2025
Ahmad Hisyam
Legal Operations Director · Singapore
"The quarterly briefing is something I actually read cover to cover. It connects findings across bulletins in a way that saves me two to three hours of piecing things together myself. The custom engagement we commissioned last year addressed a question that none of the standard bulletins covered — the research team was straightforward to work with throughout."
April 2025
Sandra Chew
Head of Talent · International Law Firm, Singapore
"We use the recruitment market bulletin as one input among several when we set hiring parameters for the year. It is more useful than general HR surveys because it is focused on legal roles specifically. The methodology note matters to me — I want to know how the sample was constructed before I draw on the numbers."
February 2025
Rajesh Kumar
Research Director · Industry Association, Singapore
"We commissioned a custom engagement to understand how membership firms approached secondment arrangements. The research plan was thorough and the timeline was met. The final report contained data we had not seen assembled in one place before and has since been referenced in two association publications."
March 2025
Liu Wei
COO · Mid-Tier Law Firm, Singapore
"The fee-arrangement bulletin was worth the subscription on its own for us. We were about to revise our billing model and wanted to understand what the broader market was doing. The data gave us enough of a picture to move forward with confidence rather than guessing. Responsive team when I had a follow-up question too."
April 2025
Engagement Examples
How Organisations Have Used the Research
Three examples of how subscribers and custom engagement clients have drawn on Decretum research to support decisions.
Case Study 01 · Annual Subscriber
Restructuring a Legal Operations Team
Challenge
A regional corporate legal department needed to justify a headcount increase to the group CFO. Internal data existed but there was no external benchmark to support the case.
How They Used the Research
The team drew on two Decretum bulletins — the in-house headcount composition bulletin and the operational efficiency bulletin — to position their department against comparable-sized in-house functions in Singapore.
Outcome
The CFO presentation was approved. The GC noted that having external data rather than internal advocacy materially changed the conversation.
Timeline: 3 weeks from bulletin purchase to board presentation
Case Study 02 · Custom Engagement
Benchmarking Legal Technology Spend
Challenge
A large international law firm operating in Singapore wanted to understand how their technology investment compared to peer firms in the market before a major platform renewal decision.
How They Used the Research
Decretum designed a custom engagement covering 22 participating firms across size tiers, gathering technology spend as a percentage of revenue, adoption rates for specific tool categories and decision-making structures.
Outcome
The firm proceeded with a focused investment rather than a full platform replacement, supported by data showing their existing spend was near market median for their tier.
Timeline: 8 weeks from scoping call to final presentation
Case Study 03 · Single Bulletin Purchase
Fee Arrangement Review at a Boutique Firm
Challenge
A Singapore boutique firm was reviewing whether to expand its fixed-fee and retainer offering. The partners disagreed about how widely these models had been adopted at comparable firms.
How They Used the Research
A single bulletin purchase of the fee-arrangement bulletin provided market data on alternative billing model adoption rates segmented by firm size and practice area, with trend data across two years.
Outcome
The partnership agreed to pilot a fixed-fee arrangement for two practice areas, moving faster than they would have without data showing that adoption at peer firms was already substantial.
Timeline: 2 days from purchase to partner meeting
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