Category: Outsourcing

Live from the ACI Legal Process Outsourcing conference in NYC. Session: Avoiding the Ethical and Liability Risks Associated with Outsourcing Legal Services, Speaker: Lawrence Schultis, Partner, Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw, Pittman LLP.  The New York City Bar ethics opinion is the leading one for ethical issues...

Live from the ACI Legal Process Outsourcing conference in NYC. Session: Initiating an Offshore Legal Services Operation, a presentation by Nancy Laben, Deputy General Counsel, Accenture.  Laben has, as a lawyer, negotiated many outsourcing deals over 15 years. Five years ago, she was involved in...

Live from the ACI Legal Process Outsourcing conference in NYC. Session: Comparing and Contrasting Different Models for Offshoring Legal Services. Moderator: Andrea Lee Negroni, Esq. Of Counsel, BUCKLEY KOLAR LLP, plus four panelists.  Chris Veator of CPA – Background: CPA started in IP and now...

Live from the ACI Legal Process Outsourcing conference in NYC. Session (9:45am): Panel Discussion: First Hand Experiences on Making the Business Case for Outsourcing Offshore – Qualifying the Viability and Benefits to Overcome Stakeholder Resistance. Moderator: Jonathan Goldstein of Pangea3; Donna Webber, Chief Counsel, CIT...

Live from the ACI Legal Process Outsourcing conference in NYC. Session (8:45am): Capitalizing on the Growing Trend of Outsourcing Legal Services Offshore. Speakers: Robert Glennie, Co-Founder and CEO, New Galexy Partners Limited; Russell Smith, Chairman, SDD Global Solutions PVT LTD. Bolded text reflects what I...

Ever get the feeling that people are doing something but just not talking about it?  It could apply to large law firms and law departments that outsource and offshore legal work. Now the secret may be out. Well-known legal blogger David Lat at Above the...

Inside Counsel magazine recently asked its general counsel readers “Have you ever outsourced legal work to India?”  The questions was asked on the magazine’s web site and the answers published in the November issue: – 26% “Yes” – 22% “May in the future” – 52%...

Two current articles raise some interesting questions about law firms and outsourcing.  Small World in Law Firm Inc. (10/07) is an interview with White & Case CFO Greg Dolan. The firm outsources some word processing to a legal process outsourcer (LPO) in Chennai. It has...