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• Law firm leaders say changes to the industry are here to stay

  Yesterday 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... more

• When large law firms fail, we need to re-examine the business model

  Apr 24 2012 Here is a very good article that addresses the question of why large law firms fail. The article points out that a dozen firms that have folded over the past ten... more

• Eversheds' pilot program for in-house contract work sees success

  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.... more

• Staff outsourced from Bevan Brittan now face redundancy

  Feb 13 2012 A large section of the staff that were outsourced from UK firm Bevan Brittan last December now face redundancy. The firm outsourced 72 of its staff to Intelligent... more

• Non-lawyer appointed as CEO for US firm Pepper Hamilton

  Feb 08 2012 Philadelphia law firm Pepper Hamilton has appointed a non-lawyer as its chief executive, hiring Scott Green, the former executive director of WilmerHale, to lead the... more

• US firms compete with offshore outsourcing companies on price

  Dec 12 2011 A new report from legal outsourcing advisory firm Fronterion has claimed that even offshore outsourcing firms will feel the pinch of tough economic times in 2012.... more

• K&L Gates add partners in Dallas and Spokane

  Nov 21 2011 K&L Gates has boosted its Dallas and Spokane offices with a series of hires. In Dallas, the firm’s outsourcing and commercial transactions practice are joined by... more

• Goodwin Procter and Fulbright & Jaworski announce staff layoffs

  Nov 02 2011 Some law firms are still in cost cutting mode, with many making significant staff layoffs and outsourcing legal support services. Since August O’Melveny & Myers... more

• Australian firm Mallesons Stephen Jacques signs outsourcing agreement

  Oct 28 2011 Australian firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques has announced that it will outsource legal work to India as a way of cutting costs in a tough market. The firm has signed an... more

• US firm Pillsbury Winthrop shifts support services across the country

  Oct 25 2011 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has announced that it will outsource legal support services to its very own Professional Services Center in Nashville Tennesee. The... more

• UK firm Irwin Mitchell starts outsourcing ahead of conversion to ABS

  Oct 18 2011 UK firm Irwin Mitchell is has announced that it will outsource 81 support staff in preparation for its conversion to an alternative business structure (ABS). The firm... more

• Paul Hastings lays off 45 staff after outsourcing deal

  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... more

• The third tier of US lawyers

  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... more

• Eversheds reports 7% increase in PEP over flat revenue

  Jun 14 2011 Eversheds has reported that revenues remained flat at £355m in the 2010-2011 financial year, while profits increased by 3 per cent and Profits per equity partner... more

• White & Case outsources switchboard service to Manila

  May 17 2011 White & Case's London office is outsourcing its telephone switchboard operation to Manila in order to cut costs. The savings aren’t likely to be too impressive, since... more

• King & Spalding increases revenue and profits

  Feb 14 2011 King & Spalding increased revenue by 6 per cent to $718.2 million in 2010, while profit per equity partner jumped almost 18 per cent from $1.47 million in 2009 to... more

• CMS Cameron McKenna asks four partners to leave

  Feb 10 2011 Four partners at CMS Cameron McKenna have been asked to leave, and several additional partners have been moved down the firm’s equity ladder as result of a... more

• Australian judge warns of the rise of legal process outsourcing

  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... more

• CMS Cameron McKenna staff face redundancy after LPO deal

  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... more

• Mergers point to shift in legal services industry

  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... more

• Outsourcing industry growing at 20-30 % per year

  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... more

• Indian Solicitors Regulation Authority may undertake ‘thematic review’ of the LPO sector in 2011

  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... more

• UK firm CMS Cameron McKenna outsources legal support services

  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... more

• American Bar Association agitates for access to legal market in India

  Nov 12 2010 American Bar Association president Stephen N Zack is lobbying the US government to make access to India’s legal services market for US lawyers a priority on his visit... more

• Mayer Brown sells UK corporate secretarial arm to outsourcing company TMF

  Oct 05 2010 Mayer Brown has concluded an agreement with outsourcing company TMF for the sale of its UK corporate secretarial arm. Under the deal, five secretaries from the firm’s... more

• Study says top US firms set to shed 17,500 non-partner jobs

  Sep 30 2010 Statistical analysis of the job market by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and others has predicted that things were looking up for legal professionals. But a new... more

• Re-upped Round up: August 24: Am Law and Above the Law on Outsourcing

  Aug 24 2010 Steven J. Harper who is an adjunct professor at Northwestern University who retired as a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, after 30 years in private practice writes a... more

• Eversheds finds 'enhanced redundancy terms' for fifth round of lay offs

  Aug 20 2010 Eversheds has announced that there will be ‘enhanced redundancy terms’ for staff who lose their jobs in the firm’s fifth redundancy round. The firm estimates that... more

• Bad times ahead for LPOs? US matches Indian call centre costs

  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.... more

• Eversheds to outsource support roles

  Aug 13 2010 Eversheds is set to outsource legal support staff roles, including HR, administration and finance jobs, after signing a seven year agreement with Accenture. Around... more

• Opportunities for Western Lawyers in India's legal outsourcing industry

  Aug 05 2010 India’s legal outsourcing industry is growing as law firms, banks, insurance firms and large corporations look to cut costs for low-level legal work like document... more

• Eversheds outsources legal support services

  Jun 18 2010 Eversheds has followed a growing trend to cut costs by outsourcing legal support services. The firm is reportedly planning to make its entire back office finance team... more

• Freshfields negotiates referral arrangements with other firms

  Jun 07 2010 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is anticipating an upturn in work, and has entered into negotiations with firms Mills & Reeve and TLT Solicitors to establish a referral... more

• Australian firm offers legal outsourcing to UK firms

  May 24 2010 Australian law firm Minter Elllison is set to offer a new product to UK firms: legal outsourcing. The firm will offer employment, sports, corporate due diligence and... more

• Largest Outsourcing deal: CMS Cameron Mckenna signs a £585 Million Deal – No ‘legal outsourcing’ yet

  May 17 2010 CMS Cameron McKenna LLP (CMS), the leading European provider of legal and tax services has signed a 10-year agreement with Integreon, a leading legal and financial... more

• DLA Piper in secret negotiations to outsource IT

  May 17 2010 The folks at RollOnFriday have broken the news that DLA Piper is in negotiations to outsource its entire global IT department of over 1000 staff. They are reportedly... more

• CMS Cameron McKenna outsources all support services in London office

  May 14 2010 CMS Cameron McKenna has concluded a deal outsource its entire business support function – including IT, HR, finance, business development, communications, knowledge... more

• Is Dechert Ahead of the Curve?

  Apr 02 2010 In-house counsel are looking for their law firms to deliver legal services efficiently and cost-effectively. Dechert, a global law firm, is training all partners and... more

• Microsoft outsources legal work to India with CPA Global deal

  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... more

• Eversheds gears up to launch its own outsourcing business

  Jan 14 2010 Eversheds in pilot with South Africa ally to launch its own outsourcing arm Eversheds is in talks to set up an outsourcing business with its South African ally,... more

• Kirkland lands million-dollar payout after outsourcing dispute

  Dec 02 2009 A US judge has awarded Kirkland & Ellis and one other US firm $10m (£6m) in legal fees in a dispute over an outsourcing agreement, reports The Am Law Daily. The... more

• More top UK law firms look at outsourcing options

  Nov 23 2009 Legal Week reports that eight firms within the top 30 already carry out some form of LPO, including Allen & Overy, Eversheds, Lovells, Pinsent Masons, Wragge & Co and... more

• Lloyds Unit In Talks to Buy CPA Global

  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... more

• Legal pitfalls of outsourcing may outweigh benefits, says Kroll

  Oct 20 2009 Companies that choose to outsource work to save money may be buying themselves more legal trouble than it's worth, according to new research. Kroll's annual global... more

• Simmons goes live with outsourcing project

  Oct 17 2009 Simmons & Simmons has launched an innovative legal process outsourcing (LPO) scheme, six months after pinpointing LPO as a key part of its strategy. Under a... more

• Slaughter and May in outsourcing talks

  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... more

• Clifford Chance outsources 12,000 hours of work to India

  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... more

• Legal outsourcing to India and China surges in financial crisis

  Oct 17 2008 Legal process outsourcing (LPO) is shining amid the market turmoil, as law firms seek to cut down on costs by outsourcing work to offices in China and India... more

• US meltdown prompts Indian LPOs to step up hiring

  Sep 29 2008 At a time when the off-shoring industry is plagued with instances of employee lay-offs, companies providing legal process outsourcing (LPO) services are on a hiring... more

• Young Indian lawyers returning to domestic legal firms

  Jul 07 2008 In a reversal of trend, young lawyers, who earlier queued up to join the Legal Process Outsourcing (LPOs) outfits in search of fatter pack packets, are returning to... more

• Indian legal offshore biz up as US slumps

  May 21 2008 Bad times for some American companies is turning into good times for India’s legal offshoring industry. For reasons largely economic and partly cultural, India’s... more

• American Companies and law firms outsource legal competencies to India

  Apr 28 2008 Why pay a lawyer at a North American firm $250 an hour or more, when you can pay an Indian lawyer $50 an hour to do the same work? Legal process outsourcers (LPOs) are... more