Prism Legal Consulting, Inc.

Prism Legal Consulting, Inc.: "Outsourced Legal Services print Introduction and Explanation Outsourced Legal Services print Introduction and Explanation List of Outsourced Legal Services Outsourced Legal Services - Background This list of selected legal outsourcing activity was compiled and is maintained by Joy London, author of the blog excited utterances and Ron Friedmann, President of Prism Legal Consulting, Inc and author of the blog Strategic Legal Technology. We have observed with interest a recent trend by US law firms and law departments to outsource some legal work overseas. As bloggers, we have informally tracked legal offshoring activity and wanted to consolidate our observations in a single list. We hope that readers will offer updates, corrections, and comments as appropriate. The primary focus of our list is offshore outsourcing by US firms and corporations of certain substantive and administrative legal functions, specifically # Document drafting by lawyers # Legal research # IP legal work, substantive or administrative # Review of discovery documents # Paralegal services # Administrative and secretarial support services, excluding digital dictation The list does not include offshore litigation support coding or vendor-provided technology services. Nor does it include offshore vendors whose business does not focus primarily on the legal market. A secondary focus of the list is selected outsourcing by US law firms or vendors within the United States. The inclusion criteria are loose but exclude outsourcing to US-based vendors of technology support, legal research, and copy/mail-room services. This type of outsourcing has occurred for years and is thus of less interest to us. Our list is neither complete nor comprehensive. We assembled it based on web research, articles we have read, and people we have met. Each entry includes a source, either a web site or article. For web sites, we list the URL; for articles, we provide a citation. We checked URLs at the time we assembled the list. Where the source is an article, we have no way to track possible changes since the publication date. We welcome comments, suggestions, and corrections from readers. We reserve the right to post reader comments at excited utterances and/or Strategic Legal Technology unless requested otherwise. If we receive corrections and/or suggestions for new entries, we will include them in periodic updates to the list. List of Outsourced Legal Services Organization Organization Type Services Location Source | Notes Date Added Accenture Corporation Law dept. support (contracts) Mauritius Corporate Legal Times, Sep 2004, reports company has set up owned and operated office in Mauritius for company legal work. Mar 05 Andrew Corp Corporation Law dept. support (patents) NZ See Outsourcing Reaches Corporate Counsel, The Recorder, 8/25/04 Mar 05 General Electric Corporation Law dept. support (contracts) India See Outsourcing Reaches Corporate Counsel, The Recorder, 8/25/04 Mar 05 General Mills Corporation Patent work NZ and Australia See Corporate Legal Times article, July 2003 Mar 05 Microsoft Corporation Patent work India See Briefed in Bangalore American Lawyer, Nov 2004 Mar 05 Baker & McKenzie Law Firm Network ops & doc production Philippines See http://www.lwk.co.uk/ViewItem.asp?id=16509 Mar 05 Bickel & Brewer Law Firm Litigation Support India See also Briefed in Bangalore American Lawyer, Nov 2004 Mar 05 Orrick Herrington Law Firm Tech, finance, admin US (Wheeling, WV) See http://www.orrick.com/offices/goc/ Mar 05 Atlas Legal Research Vendor Legal research India See Briefed in Bangalore American Lawyer, Nov 2004 Mar 05 CBF Group Vendor Secretarial & admin support US (Fargo, ND) Mar 05 Docuserve Vendor Reception, telephone & fax services, mail-room, printing & reprographics & hospitality functions Scotland See http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=199662005 Mar 05 Evalueserve Vendor IP work & market research India Mar 05 Intellevate LLC Vendor Paralegal, docketing, technical research, proofreading, bookkeeping India See http://www.practicesource.com/ale/blog/pivot/entry.php?uid=standard-532 Mar 05 Intercom India Vendor Legal transcription, legal coding India See http://www.globallawreview.com/outsourcing.html#Annexure Mar 05 Law Abroad Vendor Legal work S. Africa and UK Not clear if operational yet (see http://www.lawabroad.com/outsourcing.php) Mar 05 Lawwave Vendor Legal research, IP analytics, doc review, back office India See also India Abroad article Jan 04 Mar 05 Lexadigm Vendor Legal research India Mar 05 http://www.lexwerx.com/ Vendor Legal research India Specializes in insurance and re-insurance; has a UK office Mar 05 Manthan Services Vendor Case management, legal transcription, data digitization & archiving India See http://www.globallawreview.com/outsourcing.html#Annexure Mar 05 Mindcrest Vendor Legal process outsourcing, legal research & business research services India See http://www.globallawreview.com/outsourcing.html#Annexure Mar 05 http://www.officetiger.com/ Vendor Document processing, legal research, professional support, finance & accounting services India See http://www.hildebrandt.com/Documents.aspx?Doc_ID=1802 Mar 05 QuisLex Vendor Legal support services India Web site does not specify services Mar 05