Law Practice Management and Technology
The Bottom Line Volume 35, No. 4, October 2014
Content
- Coach's Corner: Outsourcing Is In
- Contract Attorneys: a Trend for Solo Practitioners and Small Firms
- Guide to Procuring Lpo Services in the Philippines
- Leveraging Lpo: How Small Law Can Compete with Big Law
- Message From the Chair
- Message From the Guest Editor: Legal Process Outsourcing for Solo and Small Firms
- Outsourcing Is Not a Swear Word
- MCLE Self-Study Article Outsourcing of Legal Services
MCLE Self-Study Article Outsourcing of Legal Services
By Kevin E. Mohr
This article offers 1 hours self-study MCLE credit in Legal Ethics. This article is posted in our self-study catalog HERE.
A. Introduction
Most lawyers to some extent have either directly or through intermediaries “outsourced†legal or legal-related services,1 ranging from using a local photocopy shop to reproduce documents or a company to shred those same documents when no longer needed, through hiring a vendor to provide and maintain a law firm’s computer system, or bringing on board temporary lawyers to assist in handling complex litigation or a corporate acquisition. Outsourcing can provide large, small, and solo firms with the advantages of reduced costs and increased flexibility in handling complex client matters. With the exponential growth of the Internet during the “dot.com†boom in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, in particular the construction of a fiber optic infrastructure that made global high-speed web and e-mail communications commonplace, the potential for effectively delegating abroad professional services, including legal services, became a reality.