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A new survey by consulting firm Altman Weil Inc shows that a growing number of law firm leaders believe that he changes wrought on the legal services industry by the...
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Mar 28 2012
UK firm Eversheds’ experiment with an in-house contract lawyer service has proven to be a success, and the firm has endorsed the pilot project by making it permanent....
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Feb 03 2012
The Madras High Court is deliberating on the future of 31 international legal process outsourcing firms in India, after counsel concluded arguments about the legality...
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Sep 07 2011
Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP has entered into an outsourcing agreement under which RR Donnelly will provide document processing services for the firm’s...
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Jul 13 2011
One of the US firms that pioneered the use of legal process outsourcing to India has taken steps to divert some of the work back to the US. In 1999 a Minneapolis-based...
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Jun 16 2011
There is interesting coverage in the Wall Street Journal on the creation of a ‘third tier’ of legal practitioners in the US: temp or contract attorneys that perform...
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May 21 2011
The country's leading IT services, consulting and business solutions firm, Tata Consultancy Services is planning to explore the Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) market....
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May 21 2011
Bar & Bench conducted an interview with Richard A. Walawender and Brad B. Arbuckle - partners at Miller Canfield - to talk about the firm’s India practice. The...
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May 06 2011
After sustained growth for a period of twelve years, the last three years have seen the legal markets in decline around the world. Work in mergers and acquisitions has...
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Mar 31 2011
The Solicitors Regulation Authority in the UK has moved to regulate outsourcing agreements for the first time, and will publish a Code of Conduct next week. The new...
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Mar 15 2011
The chief executive of Shepherd and Wedderburn, Patrick Andrews, say that he is amazed by the number of approaches that he has received from senior lawyers who are...
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Feb 18 2011
Deutsche Bank wants its legal advisors to step up their use of legal process outsourcing to reduce costs.
The bank is nearing the conclusion of the first formal...
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Feb 08 2011
Addleshaw Goddard is the latest firm to announce that it will send low-level legal work to a transaction services centre. The firm’s stated aim is to free associates...
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Feb 07 2011
The State of Connecticut has introduced a Bill, prohibiting the outsourcing of the drafting, review or analysis of legal documents. The Bill proposes that the practice...
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Jan 31 2011
Respected jurist Chief Justice Jim Spigelman, of the New South Wales Supreme Court in Australia, has warned Australian commercial lawyers that outsourcing legal...
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Jan 31 2011
CMS Cameron McKenna is taking the shears to its support staff after concluding a deal with outsourcing company Integreon. A third of the staff face redundancy or...
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Jan 02 2011
Two recent mergers have highlighted changing currents in the legal services industry. Thomson Reuters' purchase of legal-process outsourcing firm Pangea3 and Axiom...
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Dec 22 2010
Legal outsourcing can still be described as small. Of the $180 billion that Americans spend annually on legal services, only about $1 billion goes to outsourcers. But...
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Dec 16 2010
Legal outsourcing will increasingly be handled by companies within the US and UK, according to predictions from Fronterion, an international consulting firm for...
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Dec 08 2010
The Indian Solicitors' Regulation Authority (SRA) is considering legal process outsourcing (LPO) as part of the consultation in Chapters 4 and 7 of the current draft...
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Dec 02 2010
A series of high profile transatlantic mergers between law firms that are ‘in less-than-brilliant shape’ has prompted commentators to question the future of the BigLaw...
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Nov 23 2010
CMS Cameron McKenna's partners have approved plans to outsource legal support services to Integreon. The plan provides that Integreon set up operations within the...
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Nov 19 2010
Pangea3’s has been fully acquired by Thomson Reuters, in a move that may prompt other legal process outsourcing (LPO) providers to follow suit.
According to...
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Nov 18 2010
Thomson Reuters is in advanced talks to buy legal process outsourcing (LPO) company Pangea3, according to Business Standard and Legally India sources
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Nov 18 2010
UnitedLex has stated through a press release that the company has acquired the Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) firm LawScribe, based in Los Angeles, California with...
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Nov 16 2010
The Global LPO (Legal Process Outsourcing) conference was organized by KPO consultants in the capital over the weekend, which had some interesting trends and...
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Aug 19 2010
Call centre workers are becoming as cheap to hire in the US as they are in India, according to the head of the country’s largest business process outsourcing company....
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Aug 05 2010
The New York Times reports on how the Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) in India is drawing legal talent from abroad.
Christopher Wheeler, an Assistant Attorney...
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Feb 19 2010
Microsoft Corp. has entered into an agreement with legal outsourcing provider CPA Global to offshore legal work to lawyers in India.
The technology giant began a...
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Feb 18 2010
Microsoft has entered into an agreement with legal outsourcing provider CPA Global to offshore legal work to lawyers in India.
The technology giant began a pilot...
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Oct 28 2009
Lloyds Banking Group's private equity unit LDC is in talks to acquire legal outsourcing company CPA Global for 400 million pounds, the Financial Times reported on...
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Oct 06 2009
Slaughter and May is eyeing a radical move into legal process outsourcing (LPO), as top UK law firms face mounting pressure from clients to save costs.
The arrival...
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Oct 02 2009
Clifford Chance passed 300 deals - 12,000 hours of work - to its service outside Delhi in the last financial year, the equivalent level that would be done by seven...
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Jul 14 2009
More than a thousand City lawyer jobs could be be outsourced to India until the end of the year.
Soumitro Chatterjee of FoxMandal Little, India's largest law firm,...
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Jun 29 2009
Rio Tinto is moving work away from its high-priced legal teams at Linklaters and Baker & McKenzie in favour of a more cost-effective team in India.
The move is...
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Feb 02 2009
India’s legal process outsourcing (LPO) industry, which generated revenues of $225m in 2007, is expected to grow by 40 per cent in 2008. According to Indian-based...
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