Outsourcing Critiqued
In a 35-page report titled Calling a Change in the Outsourcing Market (April 2005, PDF), Deloitte Consulting concludes that outsourcing is not all it’s cracked up to be. The report…
More Froth in E-Discovery Market
Attenex, an e-discovery vendor with an interesting visualization interface, has raised $5 million in VC money according to the Seattle Post Intelligencer. Another sign of the rapid growth in the…
New Embedded Law System
Reed Smith recently announced a joint venture with DolphinSearch to create ComplianSeek, a product designed to help investment advisors meet regulatory requirements. This looks like what I have previously called…
Tech Developments that Will Change Your Practice
The over-hyping of technology leads to a natural reaction to discount its impact. That is a mistake. Broken promises notwithstanding, new technology continues to change law practice and business. In…
More Offshore Legal Services Providers Identified
Last month, fellow blogger Joy London of excited utterances and I released a list of outsourced legal services (prior blog post here, updated list here). Based on reader comments and…
Doing E-Discovery Right
The jury verdict against Morgan Stanley of $604 in the Perelman-Sunbeam case – based to a large extent on doing e-discovery wrong – raises the question of just what is…
E-Discovery: No More Excuses
The lead feature story of the Wall Street Journal today is Age of Discovery – How Morgan Stanley Botched A Big Case by Fumbling Emails (subscription req’d). If litigants have…
Concept Searching in Discovery
The volume of documents to review in discovery continues to explode. Can lawyers rely on full-text and concept-searching instead of lawyers to review documents? Craig Ball provides a good analysis…
More Evidence of Legal BI
I have previously suggested (here and here) that business intelligence (BI) would become more important in large law firms. The Wall Street Journal yesterday carried an O’Melveny & Myers employment…
Offshoring Beyond the Routine
If you view offshoring legal work as limited to low-value, repetitive work, think again. I recently spoke with the co-founders of legal Indian offshore service Pangea3, which has already moved…
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