Research carried out by Plexus revealed that 76 per cent of general counsel wanted to increase productivity. Furthermore, 77 per cent of GCs say they want to be more innovative, but only 10 per cent report that they are currently highly innovative in their approaches to providing legal services. CEO Andrew Mellett told Lawyers Weekly: 'What our research shows is that business acumen, solutions orientation and innovation are the skills that businesses are really valuing, and they’re not skills that are easy for many lawyers to develop, particularly because they’re not skills that are overly focused on in traditional law firms.'