Category: Outsourcing

Support Services Outsourcing: Understanding the Processes, Mehtodology and Lessons Learned. That’s the topic of a panel discussion at the ALM Outsourcing Conference 10am session.  [This blog post comes to you live from the ALM-sponsored Legal Industry Outsourcing Forum (May 23, 2007, NYC). Notes and comments...

What are current outsourcing trends and issues. That’s the topic that John K. Halvey of the Strategic Sourcing and Technology Group at Milbank Tweed addresses in this Outsourcing Conference 9am session.  [This blog post comes to you live from the ALM-sponsored Legal Industry Outsourcing Forum...

Some lawyers seem to view offshoring legal work as exotic. In fact, it’s not that different than delegating work internally.  As a panelist for The World Is Flat: What You Need To Know About Effectively Outsourcing Legal Services (ALM – Law Journal Newsletter web audio...

Offshoring legal work is hot a topic judging by the number of conferences and the growing list of companies in India that provide offshore legal support.  Conferences: Tomorow (May 15, 2007) I am a panelist in The World Is Flat: What You Need To Know...

Another bar authority has analyzed offshore work and concluded that, subject to certain caveats, offshoring is permissible.  In October, I reported on a NYC Bar Association ethics opinion on offshoring. Now, the San Diego County Bar Association has issued Ethics Opinon 2007-1, which analyzes in...

If you live in the UK, now you can get low-cost advice from lawyers in India.  A Bob Ambrogi blog post alerted me to UK-based Expert Legal Advice. Consumers buy chunks of time in advance and receive advice by e-mail. The company offering the service...

India is a big outsourcing destination. It may also become one for recruiting lawyers.  Indian lawyers next target for international firms in Lawyers Weekly (Australia, 9 Mar 07) reports that legal recruiters and some large law firms now look for lawyers in India work in...

Joy London (of excited utterances) and I have updated our outsourced and offshore legal service list. This update (the last one was in October) includes 10 new vendors and 1 dropped one. We have also noticed a couple of other trends.  One is that more...