This week ALM Legal Intelligence released : Diving In… Or Baby Steps – Legal Process Outsourcing in Corporate Legal Departments.
The survey which was conducted in the Summer of 2013 surveyed corporate legal departments regarding their views on legal outsourcing.. The survey defined outsourcing as sending work to a non-law firm entity either in the
I recently discovered a BBC comedy called Yes Minister which is a biting satire of government “efficiency” and bureaucratic decision making. Although it is now more that 25 years old and set in the UK, it seems wickedly a propos of the current crisis.As we watch Congress and the President struggle with the “fiscal cliff”
Today, Bernstein Research. released a report: Reed Elsevier: Voices Calling for Asset Divestitures Should Grow Louder, and Perhaps Fall on Deaf Ears which includes some significant implications for the legal publishing marketplace. The report recommends that Reed Elsevier divest some units including LexisNexis and suggests by implication that Bloomberg Law is standing by and
Cost saving trends between August 2010 and February 2011:
In talking to large and midsize law firm colleagues, I am somewhat amazed at the level of decentralization that is supported and sometimes mandated by the larger firm organization.
There are obvious benefits in having local staff available for “high touch” projects and to provide special expertise in supporting practice and jurisdictional research. But the