Archive for September, 2006
Saturday, September 9th, 2006
“The First Thing We Do, Let’s Offshore All the Lawyers”*
This week’s issue of Business Week highlights DuPont’s legal offshoring relationship with Office Tiger. BW’s title “Let’s Offshore the Lawyers” is a bit misleading, since Office Tiger is doing administrative tasks such as document scanning and discovery support, and not analysis or drafting. However, many corporations are keeping an eye on the relationship […]
Comments Off - Posted in Outsourcing by Chad
Monday, September 4th, 2006
How to Market Yourself for “One-Off” Projects
David Meister, a prominant author of several books about professional service providers, recently posted a blog entry that discussed how to market yourself when only doing “one-off” projects (i.e., where you are retained for only one project, not for multiple projects in an ongoing relationship). A reader inquired about whether there are marketing activities […]
Comments Off - Posted in General, Freelancing by Todd
Sunday, September 3rd, 2006
Freelance Lawyers: For Hire by the Project
Freelance lawyers work on a project basis, typically at a much lower rate than lawyers at “traditional” law firms. Freelance lawyers typically set their own schedule and pick and choose the projects they work on. They might do project work for in-house counsel, or they might be hired by a lawyer to handle […]