Category: Outsourcing

“Offshoring legal work to India could transform how lawyers’ services are bought and sold in North America.” That is the premise explored in a new and useful article in the National, the journal of the Canadian Bar Association.   In Over the Horizon (June 2006,...

Offshoring continues to be a hot topic. My next post will feature a good article covering the issues. Meanwhile, excited utterances and I have updated our list of legal market outsourcing and offshoring users and providers.  We assemble this list based on our reading and...

Global law firm Clifford Chance plans to do more legal work in lower cost jurisdictions.  The Lawyer reports on a memo to partners that managing partner David Childs sent recently. Childs: my vision for Clifford Chance (5/29/06) reports that the firm plans “escalation of an...

One “leading indicator” of legal market trends is who consulting firms are hiring. Today, Hildebrandt announced that two sourcing experts join the firm.  According to the May 8th press release, “Christopher Petrini-Poli and Nicholas Quil will join Hildebrandt, heading up the firm’s new global Strategic...

Reviewing documents is expensive and tedious. It’s just a matter of time until some is offshored to India. I hear it is already happening but have no public confirmation… until now.  The Financial Times (4/12/06) reports that “in an upcoming acquisition financed by a UK...

The current issue of Law Practice Today (April 2006) has several useful articles about outsourcing in the legal market.  One of the articles is Inside vs. Outside: When Does it Make Sense for Law Firms to Outsource?, a roundtable discussion that includes several legal technology...

After the dot-com bust, it seems VC investments are a decent indicator of business potential. So it is interesting to note that a legal offshoring company has received $4 million investment.  Pangea3, which, according to a March 30th press release, “has created a hybrid business...

This week printing giant (market cap $7b) R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (RRD) acquired (press release) offshore service provider OfficeTiger (OT). OT previously gained legal market notice through its Hildebrandt joint venture and outsourcing deals with Milbank Tweed. The acquisition could affect both law firms...