Law Firms Now Outsourcers?

With all the news about legal process outsourcing, do US and UK law firms need a strategy or position on legal outsourcing? That’s the question Integreon’s Ron Friedmann addresses in his 20 Feb 2010 article, Law Firms Now Outsourcers?, at LLRX.com. In it, he examines a recent outsourcing announcement by Eversheds and a recent LPO article by two Mayer Brown lawyers. He concludes that “clients want lower legal costs and it’s clear that shifting work location and improving processes achieve that result” so firms should at least be receptive to working with legal outsourcers.