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…
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…
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”…
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…
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,…
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…
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