Exponential Growth in Outsourcing of .... Legal Work to India
am 06.09.2005 von http://lawjustice.blogspot.comEvery lawyer active in ICT is aware of the growing importance of outsourcing in the ICT-business. But this is quiet a different story ... There is a recent trend by US law firms and law departments to outsource some of its substantive and …
ABA segnet Legal Outsourcing ab
Jurabilis / Ethics Opinion 08-451, dated Aug. 5 [...], states that sending legal work overseas is ethically permissible as long as the lawyer doing the outsourcing takes steps to ensure the protection of client confidences and preservation of attorney-clien…
Globalisierung: Legal Outsourcing boomt in Indien
Jurabilis / Rohan Dalal manages 459 lawyers, which makes his firm, Mindcrest (India) Pvt. Ltd., one of the biggest employers of legal talent in India. In fact, if Mindcrest was a law firm, it would be the countrys biggest, ranking with some of the largest l…
Wandel im Rechtsmarkt
Jurabilis / For the lowest tier of work, which requires the least amount of technical expertise and where the emphasis is on efficiency, GCs will no longer turn to their traditional firms, in-house hires or new-model firms. Instead, for document review and …
In-house Lawyer Round Table
Law & Justice / Pinsent Masons 16th In-house Lawyer Round Table (pdf) is about (out/in)sourcing legal services, the legal costs ROI, the legal function’s role in corporate governance, intellectual property, ... Interesting reading for both in-house counsel and l…
Business Basics
Handakte WebLAWg / From recent grads to senior managers, here’s what you need to know to succeed in business: With the dawn of the Internet age, many of the little, practical things about working and getting ahead seem to have been lost. Our new Thursday serie…
Wikis for the Legal Profession
Handakte WebLAWg / With the increased use of “wiki” in the legal profession, there is a surprisingly great knowledge gap. What is a “wiki” and how can it prove beneficial to my work? From the basic to expansive side of this recent phenomenon, Mi…
Kommt das Ende der billable hour bald?
Jurabilis / Charging by the houror in six-minute blockswas originally meant to improve transparency. The problem, says Hugh Totten, a member with Valorem (latin for value), a new Chicago-based law firm that offers clients contingency fees (payable o…
Tyranny of Diversity also in Law Firms
Law & Justice / Wal-Mart Stores Inc., a consumer of approximately $200 million in legal services annually, announced this past fall that it had fired one of its outside law firms - not because of the quality of its legal work but because the firm failed to meet sta…
Counsel / Berufsbezeichnung
Transblawg / The various uses of the word counsel are confusing enough to those new to common-law countries without Allen & Overy creating a new definition. In England and Wales, counsel means a barrister (two counsel - no s on the plural - means two barrist…
