Legal Services Outsourcing
Global recovery to herald LPO boom
A boom in legal process outsourcing (LPO) activity is imminent as law firms look to life after the recession. According to a new report by leading outsourcing research group ValueNotes, the industry w....  »
Caseflow 'roadmap' leads to LPO
Controlling costs in pre-trial document research is vital for effective caseflow in the US civil courts, a major legal think-tank has said....  »
Improved data access would mean more work for LPO sector
Companies could come under increasing pressure to make electronically stored information (ESI) more accessible following a document management ruling in a US intellectual property (IP) suit....  »
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....  »
Jargon Buster: What is convergence?
The Jargon Buster tackles the issue of ‘convergence’. What does it mean and why are law firms doing it?...  »
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....  »