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Why and What Lawyers Should Consider Outsourcing - Integreon Over the last three decades, large law firms have evolved into big and sophisticated businesses. Around 1985, the American Lawyer magazine first published profits per partners (“PPP”) for the AmLaw 100. Ever since, large law firms have worked to improve profits. Today, the fear of losing top partners to lateral moves forces firms to focus even more on PPP.	November 2008
Case Study - F&A Law Firm - Magellan Consultancy Services As you may be aware, law firms are increasingly looking at ways to drive costs out of the support service areas and increasing efficiencies in the non-billable areas. One area under constant appraisal is the area of finance and accounting and we have a number of clients who are outsourcing these areas.	6 November 2008
Case Study - Legal Aid Law Firm - Magellan Consultancy Services The pressures on legal aid practices to deliver bespoke legal services via a commoditised reward and payment structure is forcing a number of practices to look at innovative ways of delivering cost effective legal services.	10 October 2008
Office space race begins as credit crunch tightens grip - Personneltoday.com Many employers are planning sweeping cuts to their workspaces to cope with the tightening economic squeeze, according to property experts.	7 October 2008
Wedlake Bell set to make seventeen redundancies - Legal Week Wedlake Bell has become the latest firm to kick-off a redundancy consultation with up to six lawyers and 11 support staff facing the axe.	7 October 2008
Legal outsourcing remains high on the agenda - Times Online Legal outsourcing is coming of age. Tougher economic conditions are bringing mounting pressure to reduce the price of legal services and one clear way of cutting costs is by allocating the work to cheaper suppliers. This is of particular interest to in-house lawyers who are working hard to reduce their expenditure on external law firms while streamlining their own departments.	10 September 2008
Knowledge is power... The Results! A couple of months ago, we asked you to participate in a Benchmarking Survey. We are delighted to let you know that we now have the results of the survey and we would like to thank all the firms who took part!	8 September 2008
Employee Survey Reveals Support Staff Dissatisfied - The Lawyer The Lawyer’s first employee engagement survey, conducted by YouGovCentaur, shows a chasm between lawyers and business services staff, with the latter feeling undervalued, underpaid and out of the loop.	1 September 2008
Law Firms Feel Pinch as Companies Slash Legal Spending - Times Online Law firms are feeling the pinch as Britain's top companies, under pressure from the economic downturn, slash their spending on outside legal advice.	26 August 2008
Lawyers Make Billions But Good Times Are Ending - Times Online However, lawyers are being told today that the good times may be over. The CBI is issuing a bleak assessment of trading prospects in the services sector, including legal firms. In July and and August profitability fell at its sharpest rate since early 2002, the organisation says.	26 August 2008
Eversheds Signs New Deal to Outsource Work to India - LSN Eversheds has struck a deal to outsource lo-end legal work to India. The firm has signed a contract with a third-party provider to outsource small commercial contracts that are too expensive to carry out in the UK or in-house.	20 August 2008
CC’s, Eversheds’ Outsourcing: Greed, or Just Common Sense? - The Lawyer The decision by Clifford Chance and Eversheds to offshore low-level legal work to India makes good business sense, but to many readers of TheLawyer.com the move smacks of greed.	18 August 2008
Legal Offshoring - An Overview of Legal Offshoring Legal Processing Offshoring is occurring in nearly all sectors of the legal services industry. The work of lawyers, paralegals, legal secretaries and litigation support personnel is increasingly being performed by legal service providers on the other side of the globe.	5 August 2008
Legal Process Outsourcing comes to the fore as companies look to slash costs - Law Gazette Enquiries about legal process outsourcing have climbed sharply since the credit crunch took effect, a number of outsourcing companies have told the Gazette.	May 2008
Legal Business is Different? - LSN Legal business is different, everyone knows that. They are Practices not firms; their ethics and traditions go back into history; they are staffed by professionals who are upfront about their charges; the often distressed people to whom they give advice in confidential and sometimes hushed tones are clients not customers.	April 2008
What you can do about minimising the effects of the Credit Crunch - LSN The credit crunch has been in the news every day for the last couple of months and if you believe the news it is getting worse by the day. An important aspect lacking in these reports is what you can do about it!	17 April 2008
LPO Watch - Legal Process Outsourcing India undeniably has tremendous potential as a legal outsourcing hub owing to its strategic geographical location, low cost and skilled manpower.	March 2008
Howrey hits India for 'low-cost option' - Legal Week Howrey is to become the first major US firm to open an office in India, writes The American Lawyer, in a move the intellectual property (IP) specialist hopes will give its clients a low-cost option for document management.	February 2008
Asia-Pacific: Source of income - Legal Week According to Forrester Research, the total value of outsourcing deals struck in the second half of 2007 increased by £724.2m from the same period in the previous year and forecasts suggest that this level of outsourcing activity will continue in 2008, with Gartner predicting global outsourcing market growth of 8.1%.	February 2008
Insourcing v Outsourcing - TNSN You will probably have heard about the work/life balance, well this edition of Navigator is about the insource/outsource balance. When I was first introduced to the terms, my immediate reaction was that I do not outsource and what on earth is insourcing! The fact of the matter is that we all both insource and outsource various functions in order to progress our businesses.	February 2008
Legal outsourcing growing fast in India First there were the common consumer solutions and business processes that were outsourced. Next came research and knowledge, followed by e-learning with the West outsourcing its teaching needs to countries like India. The latest in line is the Legal Process Outsourcing, a one that is estimated to be a $640 million industry in India by 2010.	28 February 2008
KPO identified as the next wave of outsourcing - Network World A new report has labelled Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) as a recognized and mainstream outsourcing option, particularly in the financial services sector.	15 February 2008
The outsourcing guide - Legal Week It is now commonly accepted business practice to adopt outsourcing as a means of refocusing organisations on core matters, reducing non-core operational risk, improving quality and staff morale and reducing cost.	24 January 2008