Category: Outsourcing

The number of legal process outsourcing (LPO) companies continues to grow.  Joy London and I have updated our Outsourced Legal Services list: it now includes 100 LPOs, up from 77 in just three months since our last update. Some notes about our list: It reflects...

Have you ever heard anyone say “I want to study law so I can get a job reviewing discovery documents?”  Not likely. Yet many US contract lawyers review documents for a living. How satisfied are they with job content and the potentially nomadic life. If...

Two recent surveys and two recent LPO announcements illustrate that t he legal process outsourcing (LPO) market remains hot. Continued LPO growth has implications for CIOs and IT Directors.  IT is no stranger to outsourcing. ILTA surveys show that many firms, large and small, outsource...

Several articles in June cover outsourcing, both in the corporate and legal sectors. My perhaps biased take is that they suggest a continued up tick in legal outsourcing.  Seven Myths About Outsourcing (Wall Street Journal, 6/16/07, $) reports “companies that think handing off an operation...

Many of us already outsource significant aspects of our personal lives, for example, house cleaning, tax prep, yard work, dog walking, and grocery shopping . Next, you may send jobs to offshore personal assistants.  Connie Crosby over at the blog slaw.ca points to a Toronto...

The Future Of Legal Outsourcing: What Every Law Firm And Corporate Legal Department Needs To Know. That’s the topic of a panel discussion at the ALM Outsourcing Conference 515pm session.  [This blog post comes to you live from the ALM-sponsored Legal Industry Outsourcing Forum (May...

Outsourcing Return On Investment: the Myths, the Methods and the Means. That’s the topic of a panel discussion at the ALM Outsourcing Conference 315pm session.  [This blog post comes to you live from the ALM-sponsored Legal Industry Outsourcing Forum (May 23, 2007, NYC). Notes and...

The Next Generation of Outsourcing: Offshoring High-Value Legal Services To India. That’s the topic of a panel discussion at the ALM Outsourcing Conference 1115am session.  [This blog post comes to you live from the ALM-sponsored Legal Industry Outsourcing Forum (May 23, 2007, NYC). Notes and...