Category: Outsourcing

A Law Firm Adds Another Shingle: Consultant in the New York Times (10/14/05) reports that Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has expanded its legal outsourcing practice to provide outsourcing consulting. Query: have these consultants analyzed their own firm’s operations?  “Lawyers at Pillsbury, apparently trying to climb...

The Wall Street Journal reports on 9/28/05 on the trend toward sending aspects of legal work offshore.  The lead sentence of Legal Services Enter Outsourcing Domain (page B1) is “It happened with tech support, financial services and catalog order-taking. Now, a growing number of U.S....

The Washington Times reports on several instances of law firms and departments outsourcing work overseas.  Spotted on Robert Ambrogi’s Lawsites is the Washington Times article Law firms send case work overseas to boost efficiency. It reports that Venable uses Indian companies to draft patents; “[m]ajor...

Fellow blogger Joy London of excitedutterances and I have updated out list of Outsourced Legal Services. In addition Joy, offers an interesting analysis of the market to outsource legal services in India.  Our list now has almost 30 entries, a mix of companies known to...

Three recent articles discuss offshoring legal work in some detail and provide interesting updates and insights. I continue to follow the offshoring option because I view it as similar to technology: a way, properly deployed, to lower costs and improve client service.   The Corporate...

In New Reality: Temps Must Join DC Bar ($), the Legal Times (June 27, 2005) reports District of Columbia bar regulators ruled that contract lawyers must be admitted to the DC bar to avoid the unauthorized practice of law. This may have implications for offshoring,...

In a 35-page report titled Calling a Change in the Outsourcing Market (April 2005, PDF), Deloitte Consulting concludes that outsourcing is not all it’s cracked up to be. The report finds numerous problems and limitations. It’s hard to know how to apply the analysis to...

Last month, fellow blogger Joy London of excited utterances and I released a list of outsourced legal services (prior blog post here, updated list here). Based on reader comments and our own research, we have found one-half dozen additional examples.  Offshoring is news in the...