On the legal process outsourcing front, Integreon signs a record deal with CMS Cameron McKenna, and Pangea3 opens up an office in London. Wendy Akbar blogs about Wisconsin. What happens when you mix oil and water? How about a pile of lawsuits and e-discovery issues. The EDRM turns six. kCura officially loves iDiscover Global. Lastly, [...]
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Tag Archive: outsourcing
Are LPOs Under A Two Pronged Attack?
Over at The LPO Observer, there ‘s a post about how LPOs are taking on attacks both from the United States and India. The blogger first addresses the Indian issue. In India, a group calling itself “The Association of Indian Lawyers” filed a petition in the Chennai High Court against foreign law firms doing business [...]
WilmerHale, Thinking Outside The Box, Decides to “In-Source”
Good commentary by the Posse List this morning regarding WilmerHale’s decision to open up an “in-sourcing” facility in Dayton, Ohio. The post was in response to an article on LAW360.com by Leigh Kamping-Carder. Even with contract attorneys providing law firms the opportunity to cut their costs (and their clients’ costs) with respect to e-discovery, the [...]
Ethics of Legal Offshoring CLE Taught By CEO of a Legal Offshoring Company?
Is this some sort of joke? March 16, 2010 10:00 AM-10:30 AM (Pacific Standard Time) Offshore Legal Outsourcing: The Ethical Implications We will cover the ethical, liability, and security risks associated with the outsourcing of both non-core and higher-value legal work overseas. and covers the following issues: Avoiding the Unauthorized Practice of Law U.S. Attorney’s [...]
Lazy Sunday Links 3.7.10: “Come to the (e-Discovery) Cut”
Wow. I just received some major props from the Posse List on my ATL article about contract attorneys from last week. On something Ed had covered a few days ago, Rick Horowitz invites you to “Come to the Cut.” Chris Dale give his opinion on iCyte. Microsoft wants to be off in the cloud. EDiscovery [...]
Is Legal Offshoring Slowly Making Its Way Back “On Shore?”
Excellent post on changes in legal outsourcing from Simon Chester at SLAW: First news is Microsoft’s announcement today that it’s following Rio Tinto’s lead and route a fair amount of routine legal work to Gurgaon. Microsoft has been outsourcing basic intellectual property and patent maintenance to CPA Global since the mid-Noughties with around 70 CPA [...]
Lawyer huh! who the hell you are?
In one of the most bizarre posts I have ever read on foreign legal outsourcing, a blog entitled Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO), writes a fictional news release about the world in 2080 where, due to the effects of outsourcing, “Law” was declared “over” as a profession. My headline above is actually the title of that [...]
Lazy Sunday Links 2.14.10: The Valentine’s Day, Edition
Steve Bennett of Jones Day has an article of “The Ethics of Legal Outsourcing.” Here is some more info for Google Buzz for anyone interested. They Shoot Paralegals, Don’t They? Ari Kaplan has a conversation with Mary Mack. Steve Meltzer comments on expectations of privacy when surfing the web on an unsecured network.
Breaking News: Attorneys should exercise responsibility
Good article on attorney supervision and outsourcing from Julia Hardinger of Hardinger & Tanenholz LLP: In the last few years, the legal community has been bombarded with an explosion of discovery vendors who are rapidly expanding the scope of their services. Many of these staffing agencies and consulting firms now offer “end-to-end” discovery services that go [...]