Both. Mind most of the lawyers in any corporation are responsible for "daily business" like contract negotiations with customers or routine operations in HR or

Both. Mind most of the lawyers in any corporation are responsible for "daily business" like contract negotiations with customers or routine operations in HR or deal with acquisitions or whatever the company does. Only few deal with actual court cases. Now many of those court cases are very specialized and you don't keep all those experts on payroll, thus you go out contracting specialists. To some degree you also want to have a firewall by using external people who can dig up dirt without you doing it directly. However also the lawyers on your paywall don't work for free but produce cost ...