Archive for November, 2006
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
Lawyers Outsourcing Work to Other Lawyers?
The outsourcing of legal services has been gaining a lot of attention lately. Ellen Tanowitz wrote an interesting article this month in the New Lawyer, an online newsletter for the ABA General Practice, Solo & Small Firm Division.
In the article, titled “Using an Independent Contractor in Your Legal Practice”, Ms. Tanowitz explains how solo […]
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Sunday, November 26th, 2006
LawSourcing Mention
Peter Olson, the founder and a principal in The Olson Law Firm in Chicago, mentioned LawSourcing in a recent post on his Blog (thanks Peter!). In his blog post, Peter said to
Check out the site. I think it just went online very recently…there aren’t too many projects posted as yet. But, I think it […]
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Friday, November 24th, 2006
New York City Bar Addresses Offshoring
The New York City Bar recently issued an ethics opinion clarifying how bar members may use the services of offshore legal service providers. In a nutshell, New York City Bar lawyers may offshore legal services provided they meet five requirements:
A New York lawyer may ethically outsource legal support services overseas to a non-lawyer, if […]
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Monday, November 20th, 2006
No Time to Blog? Then Outsource It.
More and more lawyers are jumping into the blogosphere; however, many are finding that it takes a lot of time and effort to maintain a blog. Edward Poll, the author of the LawBiz Blog, recently wrote an article describing 10 ways a blog boosts a law firm’s image. Number 8 mentioned that lawyers […]
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Saturday, November 18th, 2006
Large Firms Tiptoeing Towards Distant Shores
The New York Times recently published an article about the slow-but-steady movement of law firms towards outsourcing. The driving factor? Cost, of course.
The latest is Clifford Chance, one of the largest law firms in the world, with 29 offices in 20 countries, which was to announce Friday a plan to consolidate and move […]
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Saturday, November 18th, 2006
Offshoring Trends
A new article by Ron Friedmann and Joy London suggest some interesting data about offshoring. First, offshoring of legal works seems to be happening at a slow pace — certainly slower than many experts were expecting. From the article:
Our impression, based on reading and talking to onshore and offshore contacts, is that the […]
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Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
LawSourcing Reviewed
Ron Friedmann at Prism Legal posted a nice blog entry about LawSourcing today. (Thanks Ron!)
In his blog post, he quotes from one of his recent articles where he wrote:
The core business of law firms is a combination of solving legal problems and helping clients cope with difficult situations. An old adage says that lawyers […]
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Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
LawSourcing is Live!
LawSourcing went live at 12:40 am Central Time today. Please visit it at http://www.lawsourcing.com and let us know what you think.
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Monday, November 6th, 2006
Outsourcing: The Redevelopment of Modern Law Practice
Bob Ambrogi and J. Craig Williams, two prominent legal bloggers and the hosts of Legal Talk Network, recently invited Ron Friedmann (President of Prism Legal Consulting) and Ross Kodner (President and founder of Wisconsin’s MicroLaw, Inc.) to discuss how technology and outsourcing are impacting legal practice. The discussion runs for 33 minutes and covers […]