Steps toward Law Factory: A&O Belfast Center; Cisco Privacy Website
With Legal Tech New York ending today and the monster storm, don’t miss two interesting, and seemingly unrelated news items from today slip by. One is that Allen & Overy is opening a low cost,...
View ArticleWill Pillsbury’s Nashville Service Center Trigger More BigLaw Cost-Saving Moves
Yet another large law firm has opened a low cost service center. Is this old news that firms can simply note – or a call to action? Last week Pillsbury announced that it will open a low cost service...
View ArticleLaw Firms Adopting Legal Processing Outsourcing Methods
Legal process outsourcing (LPO) hit the legal news almost 10 years ago. Initially, it was controversial. Whatever your views of it, you should note that law firms are now widely adopting its...
View ArticleBigLaw Growth is Dead – Lower Cost Support Tipping Point?
Skip this post if you believe the BigLaw market will return to its pre-2007 state. If not, does your firm have a strategy to control and reduce costs? Two reports last week remind us of the tough...
View ArticleTwo Big US Firms Cut Staff Costs as Legal Tech NY Starts
In what is likely a pure coincidence but one could view symbolically, as Legal Tech New York begins today, articles today report on two large US law firms that have announced significant steps to...
View ArticleUnderstanding the UnitedLex – LeClairRyan Deal: Interviews with Management
On October 30th, law firm LeClairRyan and legal services provider UnitedLex announced the creation of the LeClairRyan Legal Solutions Center, which involves the transfer of 400 people and physical...
View ArticleMiddle Office Support for Law Firms – Captives v Outsourcing
Many large US law firms own and operate low cost service centers. These “captives” provide a range of “middle office” support such as IT, finance, word processing, and business research. Since 2012,...
View ArticleWill Low Cost Centers become a Big Law Norm?
Another large law firm announced today the opening of a low-cost service center. Torys is opening in Halifax. The Globe & Mail in Bay Street law firm launches legal ‘incubator’ in Halifax reports...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleTwo Big US Firms Cut Staff Costs as Legal Tech NY Starts
In what is likely a pure coincidence but one could view symbolically, as Legal Tech New York begins today, articles today report on two large US law firms that have announced significant steps to...
View ArticleUnderstanding the UnitedLex – LeClairRyan Deal: Interviews with Management
On October 30th, law firm LeClairRyan and legal services provider UnitedLex announced the creation of the LeClairRyan Legal Solutions Center, which involves the transfer of 400 people and physical...
View ArticleMiddle Office Support for Law Firms – Captives v Outsourcing
Many large US law firms own and operate low cost service centers. These “captives” provide a range of “middle office” support such as IT, finance, word processing, and business research. Since 2012,...
View ArticleWill Low Cost Centers become a Big Law Norm?
Another large law firm announced today the opening of a low-cost service center. Torys is opening in Halifax. The Globe & Mail in Bay Street law firm launches legal ‘incubator’ in Halifax reports...
View ArticleWhat 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...
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