Category: Outsourcing

In January, I predicted that legal process outsourcing would likely consolidate.  Copal Partners eyes LPO foray via buyouts in The Economic Times (15 March 2008) quotes Joel Perlman , the president of Copal, an established “knowledge process outsourcer” (KPO) that specializes in equity and credit...

Legal outsourcing continues to be in the news. And the list of providers continues to grow.  Joy London of excited utterances and I started tracking legal process outsourcing providers almost three years ago. We have just updated our list of Outsourced Legal Services. Three years...

A new survey shows the direction legal outsourcing is heading – up.  Jack Diggle is a principal consultant at princeOMC, which is a consultancy that provides clients with “the resources to build the right sourcing solutions…. services include … strategy formulation, service provider selection and...

In my last post I wrote about large law firm Howrey opening its own document review facility in India. Is it a good idea for law firms to own and operate their own offshore center?  Because I now work for a legal process outsourcer (LPO),...

“It’s not outsourcing” says Robert Ruyak, Howrey managing partner, of the firm’s new office in Pune, India.  So reports “Howrey Vindaloo” (American Laywer, Feb 2008). Howrey, which has long operated a document review facility 15 minutes from downtown DC, has opened an office in Pune...

Will legal process outsourcing (LPO) grow in 2007? Will LPO vendors consolidate? When will law departments and law firms “go public” with their offshoring? These are some of the questions addressed in a new article.  Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO): 2007 And Beyond by Mark Ross,...

Legal process outsourcing and offshoring remain hot topics judging by two recent articles. And both illustrate on-going perception issues.  In GCs Embrace Outsourced Work (The Recorder, 25 Jan 2008) a BigLaw partner objects to offshoring document review because it is “better for lawyers who are...

Live from the ACI Legal Process Outsourcing conference in NYC. Session: Best Practices for the Ongoing Management of the Outsourcing Arrangement. Speakers: Angelo Paparelli, Managing Partner, Paparelli & Partners LLP and Elizabeth Foster Partner, Business and International Services Groups Luce, Forward, Hamilton, Scripps LLP.  Paperelli...