What is the Impact of a Low Cost Center When Law Firms Merge?
Earlier this week Kevin Colangelo of Elevate Services wrote a nice blog post, The Business of Law: Addressing Law Firms’ Concerns Over “Control” in Managed Services Relationships. He explains the...
View ArticleBig Law Changing or Being Disrupted?
The legal market has seen a running debate since the economic crash: is Big Law being disrupted? My short answer is no, it’s only changing. It’s not the three conferences in February alone on this...
View ArticleAre Firms Succeeding with Low Cost Service Centers? (Live from Ark Library)
This is a live blog post from the Ark Best Practices & Management Strategies for Law Firm Library, Research & Information Services conference in NYC. The topic of this session is “Service...
View ArticleThe Next Step in Large Law Firm Low Cost Service Centers
Large law firms continue to open low cost service centers. That’s barely newsworthy after so many US and UK firms have done so. Firms with low cost centers in the US include Hogan Lovells, Littler, DLA...
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Legal Operations – What We Know Now
Legal business operations, especially in corporate law departments, is on the rise. Lawyers in both law firms and law departments require an array of business and administrative support. That support...
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A Day of Legal Innovation in London: Client Innovation Space + Flex Staffing
It may only be Tuesday, but is has already been an eventful week in innovation news from the London legal market. Two Magic Circle firms and one Top 30 firm made noteworthy announcements today. Here...
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Legal Innovation – Revolution or Evolution?
Is legal innovation a revolution or evolution? Regular readers know I come out on the latter. I do a deeper dive here drawing on recent news. (Note at the end I share details on an upcoming legal...
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The State of Alternative Legal Service Providers
The report Alternative Legal Service Providers 2019 was released last week. Perhaps influenced by the subtitle, “Fast Growth, Expanding Use and Increasing Opportunity”, the many articles covering it...
View ArticleLaw Firms Disrupted – Disputing the TR View
Thomson Reuters today released its annual law firm report, 2020 Report on the State of the Legal Market, prepared with Georgetown University Law Center, suggesting law firms disrupted. I agree in part...
View ArticleBig Legal Market Shift Today + What It Might Mean
This morning a big legal market shift occurred: a traditional UK law firm, albeit one publicly traded, acquired a well-established managed legal services providers (AKA legal process outsourcing...
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