Category: Outsourcing

Legal offshoring and outsourcing is a hot topic. How much is smoke, how much is fire?  Joy London and I maintain a list of legal market outsourcing and offshoring. In connection with our October update of the list, we wrote an article, Developments in Legal...

Outsourcing comes in many shapes and sizes. A new legal outsourcing website with a fresh approach has just launched.  Lawsourcing.com is a web-based service started by two technology lawyers. It’s a legal-specific reverse auction market: lawyers in need of help – substantive or business –...

So what’s legal offshoring really like from the inside? Two Harvard 3Ls report on their journey through India.  The source on outsourcing in the Harvard Law School Alumni Bulletin (Fall 2006) carries a report by two Harvard Law students who spent time in India researching...

More confirmation today from the New York Times that outsourcing is a big trend in BigLaw.  Law Firms Are Starting to Adopt Outsourcing (10/27/06) reports on large law firms that have outsourced functions. I’ve already blogged on the examples cited in detail (Clifford Chance and...

Legal trade press articles have quoted BigLaw partners about the parade of ethical horrors of offshoring. They should read The Association of the Bar of the City of New York Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics, Formal Opinion 2006-3, which finds that it is ethically...

Magic Circle law firm Clifford Chance has announced it will move 300 staff positions to India.  CC to transfer 300 jobs to India in bid to save £30m in legalweek.com (10/2/06) reports the firm is “set to move about 300 support staff jobs from the...

It’s a nice change of pace to talk about a topic instead of write about it. Last week I had the pleasure of participating in a great disussion of both legal technology, including outsourcing.  Bob Ambrogi and J. Craig Williams host the weekly Legal Talk...