Benchmark · Matters
Matter duration benchmarks.
Matter duration is one of the most-asked benchmarks and one of the most variable. The ranges below cover small UK firms; the bigger value is reading where the duration goes — fee-earner time, client-side waiting, third-party blocking — because each has a different fix.
6 min readUpdated April 2026Members only
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