{"id":976,"date":"2025-04-25T11:20:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T11:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/nare\/?p=976"},"modified":"2025-04-25T11:53:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T11:53:45","slug":"how-to-prepare-a-legal-department-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/nare\/how-to-prepare-a-legal-department-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"How to prepare a legal department budget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"what-goes-into-the-legal-department-budget\">What goes into the legal department budget<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To start, you must account for&nbsp;<em>all<\/em>&nbsp;the different items that make up the budget.\u202f If you forget something, you can end up with some costly holes. Consider the following:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Salaries &amp; benefits\u00a0\u2013 that is, salaries, benefits, bonuses, 401k match, and anything else that goes into the \u201cfully loaded\u201d cost of each employee in the department.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Allocations\u00a0\u2013 this accounts for the legal department\u2019s share of rent, utilities, technology, copiers, phones, and any other operational costs that are spread among the different business units and staff groups.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What goes into the legal department budget To start, you must account for&nbsp;all&nbsp;the different items that make up the budget.\u202f If you forget something, you can end up with some costly holes. Consider the following:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/nare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/nare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/nare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/nare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/nare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/nare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/nare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/nare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/nare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/nare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/nare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}