Chennai Writ Ruling: Foreign Lawyers Can Advise Foreign Law But Not Domestic; LPOs Must Not Give Legal Advice

The Chennai High Court has cleared foreign lawyers from flying in and out of India to advise on foreign law, as well as the operations of legal process outsourcing (LPO) outfits, although it added that foreign lawyers would not be allowed to practice domestic law unless they registered with the Bar Council of India (BCI). Read More..

Jones Lang LaSalle Marks Year Four as a Global Outsourcing 100® Company

Jones Lang LaSalle announced today that it has been named as one of the world's top 100 outsourcing providers as part of the 2012 Global Outsourcing 100®, the annual ranking of high-quality service providers across all industries as determined by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals® (IAOP®). Read More..

Indian Court Upholds 'Fly-in Fly-out' Practice For Foreign Firms

In a landmark order made today, the Chennai High Court in India has cleared foreign lawyers from flying in and out of India to advise on foreign law, as well as clearing the way for legal process outsourcing (LPO) companies to operate in the country. Read More..

Building Society Trials Auto-Enrolment Outsourcing

Leeds Building Society has launched a pilot scheme to outsource its auto-enrolment administration to Equinti ICS.

The trial will see Equinti take responsibility for administration services, managed employee communications, real time reporting and full regulatory reporting. Read More..

Sri Lanka, an Ideal Venue for LPO -ICTA

Sri Lanka is ideally suited as a venue for legal process outsourcing (LPO), says Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) Chief Executive Officer Reshan Dewapura. Dewapura said so while participating at the inauguration of Sri Lanka’s first outsourcing conference, with a focus on LPO held at Cinnamon Grand, Colombo recently. Read More..

LawVest Targets Volume Market with Team of Solicitors and Barristers

DLA-backed venture LawVest has assembled a team of solicitors and barristers to handle volume fixed-fee work, as details emerge of the legal services company's new-look business model.

The company, which has launched under the trading name Riverview Law, will offer a range of legal services including commoditised work such as small debt collection, remortgaging and low-value litigation. Read More..

Protecting Commercial Secrets in Outsourcing

It is no surprise that outsourcing became an essential part of business a long time ago. The advantages offered by outsourcing are indisputable. The Russian market is no exception; outsourcing is becoming more and more popular in resolving various business tasks.
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Legal Process Outsourcing - Good Opps for Lankan Businesses

Sri Lanka's first international conference on LPO (Legal Process Outsourcing) titled "Outsourcing vs Restructuring - Challenges in International Business Structures", opened on Thursday bringing together an array of experts on law, ICT and business and combination of the three disciplines. Read More..

Legal Outsourcing is Here to Stay

As an assistant attorney general for New York State, Christopher Wheeler used to spend most of his time arguing in courtrooms in New York City.

Today, he works in a sprawling, unfinished planned suburb of New Delhi, where office buildings are sprouting from empty lots and dirt roads are fringed with fresh juice stalls and construction rubble. At Pangea 3, a legal outsourcing firm, Wheeler manages a team of 110 Indian lawyers who do the grunt work traditionally assigned to young lawyers in the United States - at a fraction of the cost. Read More..

Outsourcing Transcription Helps Lawyers

Expert transcription services help legal professionals to delegate their documentation responsibilities and improve their efficiency profoundly. Outsourcing Transcription their chief documentation assignments let them to sort out and handle their paperwork in appropriate format, and reorganize their workflow. Read More..

Global Increase in Outsourcing Forces Organizations to Improve their Information Security Posture to Prevent Devastating Breaches

Outsourcing of the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure is predicted to increase by almost 67% in the next 8 years. Companies across the globe are rushing to find ways to manage the information security risks while reaping the benefits of outsourcing. EC-Council's CISO Summit panel discussion suggests that increased information security compliance plans, continuous education, and knowledge sharing may prove to be the best solution. Read More..

Legal Spending Metrics: Get on the Bus

Recently, my cousin described her approach to dealing with a family crisis: Chase the bus, get on the bus or drive the bus. Being an action-oriented person, her preference was to learn everything she could about the issue, gather expert advice, and then make decisions and address the situation head-on. In other words, she chose to drive the bus. Read More..

Clutch Group Addresses Predictive Coding at Legal Tech New York

Brandon Daniels, who serves as President of Managed Services at Clutch Group, joined leaders in the legal industry to discuss "Predictive Coding" at the LegalTech 2012 conference at the New York Hilton Hotel. Read More..

Professional BPOs: Lanka has Edge Over India

India despite being a huge country was facing a tough time with an inadequate talent pool for its Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and therefore, Sri Lanka could get that advantage by focusing on its strengths in this sector, an Indian expert said. Read More..

Corrs Jumps on LPO Wagon

Corrs Chambers Westgarth has become the latest firm to put in place a legal process outsourcing (LPO) options for clients. The firm has signed agreements with providers Integreon and Exigent, both of which already services firms and corporates in the market already.
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Brillion Asset Solutions Announces National Networking Program with O'Connor Cochran LLP for Real Estate Legal and Transactional Services

O'Connor Cochran LLP, a Los Angeles-based law firm, announced Wednesday that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Brillion Asset Solutions, Inc., a Newport Beach-based asset management firm, to collaborate in the administration and growth of Brillion's full-service, technology-driven real estate services network, and to provide and coordinate commercial real estate-related legal services to Brillion's institutional clients and broker network. Read More..

Risks of Outsourcing Your Data Center

The term outsourcing generally carries the connotation of a more efficient business practice that cuts costs through division of labor. A company outsources—at least theoretically—to transfer work unrelated to its main business to contractors that specialize in those tasks. Thus, if your company manufactures widgets, you might consider outsourcing your payroll duties to a company that knows the ins and outs of tax law, accounting and so forth. Outsourcing of the company’s data center needs is no different, but doing carries a number of risks: some are common to outsourcing in general, and some are peculiar to data center outsourcing specifically. Read More..

In Law Firm Switch, Ropes & Gray Sublease to Grais & Ellsworth

The law firm Ropes & Gray has completed a deal to sublease one of its floors at 1211 Avenue of the Americas, the large midtown office tower where it has its New York headquarters.
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Outsourcing Changes to Market Changes

Outsourcing Changes to Market Changes by Peter Brudenall, Technology and Outsourcing Partner, Lawrence Graham LLP. Outsourcing continues to change in response to market changes, and a still uncertain economy. Read More..

Nampa City Council Approves White Peterson Attorney Contract

NAMPA — The City Council approved a contract Monday night formalizing the city’s arrangement with the White Peterson law office for municipal legal services for the remainder of the fiscal year. Council member Bob Henry cast the only dissenting vote. Read More..

Would-be Lawyers Find it Harder to Break Into Profession

The legal profession has experienced its own trials in these rough economic times. Incomes have slipped for experienced lawyers, opportunities are slimmer for recent graduates, and law schools are shrinking enrollments. Read More..

Dechert's Revenue Grows for First Time in 4 Years

After seeing gross revenue fall by nearly 29 percent between 2007 and 2010, Dechert has started to move in the opposite direction, growing revenue 3.5 percent in 2011. Read More..

Private Equity House Takes Majority Parabis Stake in Law Firm LBO First

Private equity house Duke Street has acquired a majority stake in the Parabis Group, the parent company of insurance litigation law firms Plexus Law and Cogent Law. Read More..

Cathy Kiselyak Austin Joins Vertex as General Counsel

Vertex Inc., the leading provider of corporate enterprise tax solutions, today announced that Cathy Kiselyak Austin has joined the company as its General Counsel. Ms. Austin comes to Vertex with more than 30 years of experience in legal and business issues in the technology industry, involving complex information systems, outsourcing, content development, and Web based platforms, as well as ERP licensing, implementation and hosting and privacy and security issues. Read More..

CPA Global Appoints LSO Head Following Departure of Ex-Rio Tinto Attorney

CPA Global has appointed a new head of legal service outsourcing (LSO) to fill the gap left by Leah Cooper, who departed the business late last year. Anand Sharma, who is also CPA’s chief financial officer and head of management services in India, has taken on Cooper’s mantle to lead the firm’s IP and legal support services business. Read More..

Sri Lanka's First LPO Conference Opens on Thursday

Sri Lanka's first international conference on LPO (Legal Process Outsourcing) gets underway in Colombo on February 9-10. Titled "Outsourcing vs Restructuring - Challenges in International Business Structures", the conference brings together an array of experts on law, ICT and business and combination of the three disciplines. Read More..

Aviva Names Four Firms on Catastrophic Loss Panel as AMP Confirms New Asia Roster

Herbert Smith has been selected by Aviva as one of four firms to sit on its UK catastrophic loss panel, with the appointment coming as Australian wealth manager AMP has finalised its new Asia legal roster following its merger with AXA Asia-Pacific. Read More..

Taylor Wessing to Offer LPO to Law Firms with Low-Cost Business Spin-Off

Taylor Wessing is set to offer legal process outsourcing (LPO) services to other law firms with plans to spin off its document review business now underway.
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Madras HC May Give Verdict in Writ v Foreign Firms in 4 Weeks, as Arguments Close

The Madras High Court reserved its judgement yesterday and has begun deliberating on the fate of 31 international law firms and legal process outsourcing (LPO) outfit Integreon, and whether they face a ban of flying into India, after counsel for all sides concluded arguments. Read More..

Dell and Atos to Deliver Standardized Cloud-Based IT Infrastructure Services for Wolters Kluwer

Dell Services and Atos today announced a significant offering of IT outsourcing services that will provide a standardized cloud-based IT infrastructure and global support solution for Wolters Kluwer customers in the legal, tax, finance and healthcare industries. The acceleration and adoption of workflow solutions, mobile applications and increased expectation of content available at the point of need requires access to cloud-based, high-availability solutions.
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Law Partners and Managers Must Be Active Overseers of Colleagues' Conduct

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Supervisory and Subordinate Lawyers

Model Rule 5.1, which covers partners and managers in all types of law practices, requires supervisory lawyers to take affirmative measures to prevent and detect unethical conduct by lawyers in their firm, office, or agency. Those who own and manage law practices are expected to construct and maintain a framework to make sure that other lawyers in the firm toe the ethical line. Read More..