Legal Services Outsourcing
The State of the IP Industry 2009
A growing awareness of the importance of intangible assets has led to unprecedented growth in the intellectual property (IP) sector over the past two decades but where is the IP industry going now?...  »
Legal services outsourcing streamlines accelerated examination patent registration
With a number of clients requiring accelerated examination patent applications, Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP found it was spending an increasing amount of time on searches. Attorney Christophe....  »
Business continuity: Lessons from swine flu, Hurricane Katrina and the 2004 tsunami
When it comes to planning for business continuity, far too many businesses think the worst will never happen to them, says CPA Global’s Neil Berrecloth...  »
US and UK companies turn to outsourcing to cut pre-trial costs
Some 28% of US companies and 22% of UK companies are cutting pre-trial costs by working with legal process outsourcing (LPO) providers, a new report has shown....  »
State of the UK legal industry: the in-house view
Legal Strategy Review has conducted research among UK-based corporate legal departments to find the real issues facing the legal sector this year. Hit hard by the recession, under pressure to cap fees....  »
Mid-sized law firms helped by legal outsourcing
Legal process outsourcing (LPO) is playing a key role in maintaining the global activities of medium-sized law firms during the recession, a recent two-day symposium at Oxford University has found....  »
Jargon Buster: What is convergence?
The Jargon Buster tackles the issue of ‘convergence’. What does it mean and why are law firms doing it?...  »
Fresh US backing for legal outsourcing
The top judicial authority in Ohio has issued strong support to the legal process outsourcing (LPO) sector in a recent opinion....  »
Legal outsourcing to rise as US tightens finance laws
Developments in US fiscal legislation could pave the way for increased use of outsourced legal services by the in-house teams of financial groups, the US National Law Journal has suggested. ...  »
Legal outsourcing could ease e-data mountain
IP lawyers are placing an ever-greater emphasis on e-discovery and document review strategies as the amount of electronic data sought in court proceedings swells....  »