On June 29, I co-hosted #LawJobChat on Twitter. The chat, moderated by Amanda Ellis of Amanda Ellis Legal Search and Melissa Sachs of RecruiterEsq, focused on how to start and run a successful practice as a freelance lawyer.
In a follow-up post on her blog, The 6Ps of the Big 3, Amanda identified the following points [...]

Earlier this week, Indian legal process outsourcing company Fronterion LLC launched the Legal Process Outsourcing Resource Center. The Resource Center Purports to be a “[c]omplete source for leading-edge content and online resources relating to the ethics of legal outsourcing.” It’s not.
The most significant area in which the Resource Center comes up short is in its [...]

Last fall, I wrote about the risks that lawyers take when they outsource work to foreign legal process outsourcing companies. The primary risk I focused on wasn’t the possibility that the foreign provider might violate confidentiality or conflict of interest rules: it was the risk that the LPO company would produce substandard work.
My last [...]

As part of the its sweeping review of “the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the U.S. system of lawyer regulation in the context of advances in technology and global legal practice developments,” the ABA’s Ethics 20/20 Commission has solicited comments about domestic and international legal process outsourcing. To help facilitate the information-gathering process, [...]

THR, Esq., The Hollywood Reporter’s legal blog (“the intersection of hollywood [sic] and law”) reported today on Sacha Baron Cohen’s appellate victory in a defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress action brought by a former girlfriend. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t pay much attention to a story like that (though I adored Cohen in Talledega Nights: [...]

In a recent post over on the TechnoLawyer Blog entitled SmallLaw: 2010 Legal Profession Predictions, legal tech commentator Mazyar Hedayat prognosticates about the forces that will shape the small firm world this year.
Among Hedayat’s six predictions is that “[o]utsourcing [will] give[] way to insourcing.” According to Hedayat,

[i]n a world where the Internet has flattened space [...]

Fronterion, an international management consultancy that focuses exclusively on advising law firms and corporations on outsourced legal services, recently released a report called Ten for 2010: Top Ten Trends for Legal Outsourcing in 2010. While the report is aimed at convincing large American and UK firms and corporations to outsource to offshore LPO providers, it [...]

Since Legal Research & Writing Pro launched in May 2008, monthly live teleseminars and tele-webinars (like a webinar, but with audio over the phone and no software to install on your computer) have been an integral part of our educational offerings. Attendance at the live programs and copies of the program recordings have been included [...]

I’ve taken a fair amount of heat for pointing out that ABA Formal Op. 08-451, which states (with some important caveats) that foreign legal outsourcing is ethical, is actually good news for independent US-based contract lawyers because the same principles that allow firms to send legal work overseas also allow law students and graduates awaiting [...]

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This lesson comes in handy when reading a new Law.com article entitled Law Firm Cost Recovery is Here to Stay. The article discusses the results of a survey by Mattern & Associates about law firm cost-recovery practices. Among the types of costs studied are overnight delivery, outgoing faxes, copies, telephone calls, legal research and [...]