The bar graph represents trends in the number of hours devoted to three types of legal files over the last three years. The x-axis displays the three file types: legislative, advisory and litigation. The y-axis represents the number of hours (in thousands), ranging from 0 to 2,000.
There are three groups of bars; one group for each file type. Each of these groups has three bars representing the number of hours devoted to the file type each year from 2008-09 to 2010-11.
The number of hours devoted to legislative files was 243,659 in 2008-09, 245,446 in 2009-10, and 249,339 in 2010-11.
The number of hours devoted to advisory files increased steadily over the past three years: 1,299,353 hours in 2008-09, 1,427,924 in 2009-10, and 1,491,142 hours in 2010-11.
Litigation files also saw a steady increase in hours, increasing from 1,564,624 to 1,659,269, to 1,745,688 hours over the past three years.