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Two recent mergers in the legal industry speak volumes about the forces reshaping the business of law at its highest levels. What's also notable is that neither deal involved large law firms.
Thomson Reuters, a media and information-services company, acquired Pangea3, a legal-process outsourcing firm with most of its lawyers in India, in November. A month earlier, Axiom Global Inc., which provides lawyers-for-hire to big corporations, bought another legal staffing company, Chicago-based LawyerLink LLC.
The deals are not large; Axiom and LawyerLink didn't even bother issuing press releases. Yet the transactions reflect how alternatives to the traditional law firm are becoming increasingly attractive to buyers of sophisticated legal services in the post-financial-meltdown era.
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LawyerLink, Pangea3 and other alternatives to law firms have been around for several years, but their business models have gained momentum since the recession because they have found ways to cut costs out of basic legal tasks.
Click to read the rest of "Outsourcing gaining standing in legal profession" (Chicago Tribune).
Outsourcing Goes Viral
In December 2010 the Hewlett-Packard Company decided to go the way of their competitors International Business Machines Corp., Accenture PLC and Dell Inc.
They will be opening call centers in India. Of course this means closing call centers in the United States and ultimately firing U.S. workers.
Find out why here http://www.under5cents.com/2010/12/outsourcing-goes-viral.html
Posted by: Making Sense | December 28, 2010 at 10:56 AM