As we reported in May in Part 1 of our Trends series (click here), law firms and legal process outsourcing to India still has a long way to go, and law firms still appear unconvinced. And this is despite the Rio Tinto/CPA Legal tie-up (for insightful analysis on this subject from Rees Morrison click here and Jordon Furlong click [...]
Even with contract attorneys providing law firms the opportunity to cut their bills/its costs with respect to e-discovery, the expenditures can still be prohibitive, particularly in high-cost regions like D.C. and New York where the cost to house document reviewers on a contract basis is higher than elsewhere in the U.S. As we have reported in [...]
Satyam Computer Services, a leading Indian outsourcing company that serves more than a third of the Fortune 500 companies, significantly inflated its earnings and assets for years, the chairman and co-founder said Wednesday, roiling Indian stock markets and throwing the industry into turmoil.
For full story as reported in the New York Times, click here.
From: The American Lawyer
The Economic Times of India reports that Clifford Chance is in tie-up talks with Indian firm AZB & Partners — a union that would involve client referrals, consultation, and joint training and marketing. While foreign firms are not allowed to operate in India, and joint ventures with domestic Indian firms are also [...]
From: Corporate Counsel, December 22, 2008
Martin Shively directs the worldwide IP operations of Microsoft Corp. But he doesn’t commute to the company’s campus in Redmond, Wash., every day. The associate GC works in a remote office in New Delhi, where he’s been based for 18 months overseeing not call centers, but outsourced patent work. And [...]
There is an article out this morning via ALB Legal News, a news site out of Australia that we monitor, that covers the legal markets in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, along with parts of Japan, Taiwan and Korea. They often give us access to their job sites which we post on our Europe, Persian [...]
From sammylive.com: Dec 14, 2008
The Indian legal process outsourcing might be on a high with rising influx of offshore assignments amid the financial turmoil, but the sector still finds less favour among law graduates as a career option. According to a recent survey, legal process outsourcing firms (LPOs) are the least preferred choices as a profession [...]
From the National Law Journal (with a hat tip to Gabes Guide for alerting us to the story):
Just a few years ago, outsourcing legal work to India was a dirty little secret — law firms did it, but few admitted to it. Those days are long gone. As outsourcing becomes more commonplace and corporate counsel [...]
From: The National Law Journal, December 10, 2008
Just a few years ago, outsourcing legal work to India was a dirty little secret — law firms did it, but few admitted to it. Those days are long gone.
As outsourcing becomes more commonplace and corporate counsel and law firms are under increasing pressure to reduce costs for [...]
From: The National Law Journal (print date December 8, 2008)
Companies that outsource legal work to Mumbai, India, have been reassuring their clients that operations have not been disrupted and that what happened in Mumbai could happen anywhere.
“Terrorism is a fact of life internationally,” said George Kimball, an outsourcing expert and partner in the Los Angeles [...]
