Legal departments are increasingly turning to alternative legal service providers to handle certain legal tasks and matters on a more cost-effective basis. But now, some law firms are also engaging alternative legal service providers to help their client reduce costs and strengthen the firm’s client relationships. Jeffrey Sharer, co-chair of Akerman’s Data Law Practice, talked …
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Alternative Legal Service Providers Are About Specialized Expertise, Not Just Costs, Says New Study
The emergence of alternative legal service providers (ALSPs) is having a notable – and growing – impact on the legal market. The implications for law firms and corporations, and where the ALSP market is heading, was the subject of a comprehensive new study of ALSPs that was discussed at a panel today at Legal Tech …
- January 31, 2017
- Leonard Lee
Is doing more with less keeping you up at night?
The legal landscape continues to be filled with challenges impacting corporate counsels’ role as legal advisor as much as their responsibility to best manage limited resources. In addition to practicing law, corporate legal departments must manage a budget, staff, use of technology, outside counsel spend and non-law firm legal services, such as legal process outsourcing …
- December 4, 2014
- Jeff McCoy
ACC Annual Meeting – Driving value through LPOs
Numerous legal departments are continually being asked to do more with less and manage their costs. At the 2014 Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Annual Meeting, the session titled “Who Says You Need Big Spend/Size to Drive Value?” offered some great examples of leveraging various resources that could help many legal departments. One example in particular …
- November 3, 2014
- Jeff McCoy
Pangea3 named a 2014 ACC Value Champion
Pangea3, a Thomson Reuters business specializing in global legal outsourcing, was recently named a 2014 Association of Corporation Counsel Value Champion, thanks to its participation in Caterpillar, Inc’s “Re-engineering Legal Support” initiative. Like many of the other legal departments honored, Caterpillar made big strides in process improvement and smarter division of labor. The improvements first …
- June 2, 2014
- Susan Martin
Case study: How Pangea3 helped its client keep pace with mushrooming litigation and save $1 million
Founded in 2004 and welcomed into Thomson Reuters in 2010, Pangea3 has grown to become a global leader in legal process outsourcing (LPO). In situations where large numbers of documents need to be reviewed and produced in short time periods, Pangea3’s consultative, process-driven approach ensures that clients receive the cost-saving benefits of intelligent culling techniques …
- February 22, 2013
- Susan Martin