Will Pillsbury’s Nashville Service Center Trigger More BigLaw Cost-Saving Moves
Yet another large law firm has opened a low cost service center. Is this old news that firms can simply note – or a call to action? Last week Pillsbury announced that it will open a low cost service center in Nashville, TN. Let’s start...
Ron Friedmann,
14 years ago
3 min read
Steps toward Law Factory: A&O Belfast Center; Cisco Privacy Website
With Legal Tech New York ending today and the monster storm, don’t miss two interesting, and seemingly unrelated news items from today slip by. One is that Allen & Overy is opening a low cost, onshore service center. The other is that Cisco has launched...
Ron Friedmann,
15 years ago
2 min read
Does Herbert Smith’s Belfast Doc Review Center Portend More Law Factories?
Recently I have been exploring “Law Factory” – the concept that the legal market will offer low cost, industrialized processes for routine work that are separate from “bet the farm” operations for high-stakes matters. An open question is whether the two can co-exist under one...
Ron Friedmann,
15 years ago
3 min read
BigLaw New Normal Looks Bad – More ‘WilmerHale Moves’ Coming?
More evidence has come in that the new normal for large law firms looks bad: the Hildebrandt Baker Robbins Peer Monitor Economic Index (PMI). This index is a function of demand (billable hours), productivity (hours per lawyer), rates, direct expenses, and overhead expenses. The 2010...
Ron Friedmann,
16 years ago
2 min read
Law Firm Competition in a Cost Conscious Era
The legal press loves to pit US and UK firms against one another. This week, evidence of another dimension in that competition. Large UK law firms have embraced low cost, offshore operations more enthusiastically than US firms. View from the Top – David Childs, global...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
1 min read
Central Back Offices and Outsourcing
You may recall Orrick’s decision to re-locate information technology, HR, and other functions to a central location in Wheeling, WV. See Almost Heaven: Orrick Relocates Tech Operations to West Virginia (law.com, October 2002). Yesterday I was reminded of this when I read Center of Support,...
Ron Friedmann,
23 years ago
3 min read
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