Archive for October, 2006
Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Online Legal Matching Gathering Steam
Law.com reports that online legal matching, a business model that uses automated technologies that match specific needs of a person seeking a lawyer to lawyers whose practices focus on those areas, is quickly picking up momentum. Several companies, including Legal Match, have automated software that matches the needs of a client with listed attorneys […]
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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
What Do I Outsource?
One of the most challenging questions for lawyers new to outsourcing is “what should I outsource?” The answer is simple: outsource the tasks you dislike the most.
Most business people I know hate to prepare their business tax returns. So instead of muddling through the returns themselves, grumbling the entire time about how much […]
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Monday, October 23rd, 2006
U.S. Firms Outsourcing to . . . U.S. Firms
A recent ALM Research study found that more U.S. law firms are outsourcing certain functions, but that most are using U.S.-based companies to do the work.
From the study:
Almost two-thirds of respondents said their firms had outsourced some functions within the past year and more than half reported that their firms had begun outsourcing some functions […]
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Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
Call for Beta Testers
If you are interested in previewing the new LawSourcing website as part of an exclusive group of Beta testers, please send an email expressing your interest to beta@lawsourcing.com. Beta testers get early access to the site and a free 12-month upgrade on the service.
Questions? Email us at beta@lawsourcing.com.
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Monday, October 9th, 2006
Legal Temping
The New Jersey Star Ledger recently featured an article about the increasing number of lawyers working on a “temp,” project or contract basis. Among other things, the article discusses why the number of temporary lawyers is growing:
From mega-firms dealing with major trials, to smaller ones with a little too much work, to corporate legal […]
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Monday, October 9th, 2006
Ed Poll on Outsourcing
Over the past few weeks Ed Poll of LawBiz posted several articles about outsourcing, particularly legal outsourcing. They’re all worth reading in their entirety, but here’s a quick scan of his posts:
From Outsourcing spreading:
Law firms are coming to this topic somewhat late. Immigration law firms are finding that many of their functions can be […]
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Monday, October 9th, 2006
LawSourcing Coming Soon
Okay, so I’m waaaaay behind on posting to the blog. We’ve been getting things ready to launch LawSourcing and haven’t had much time to write blog entries. We’re really close to putting up the LawSourcing Beta site, so expect more blogging — and a really cool site — soon.