Been There, Done That: 8 Law Firms That Have Launched ALSPs
Law firms are diversifying their revenue streams with the creation of alternative legal service providers (ALSPs). LTN highlights a few of the law subsidiaries that have recently made news, along with the variety of tasks they're looking to perform.
December 28, 2020 at 12:00 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Legal Tech News
In recent years, law firms have launched alternative legal service providers to cost-effectively provide high-volume document review and other services at scale or with technology. The rise of these ALSPs corresponds to the growing emergence of vendors and the Big Four serving corporate legal departments' legal needs. Law firms argue their ALSPs offer the best of both worlds: legal services at scale with Big Law expertise nearby. Time will only tell if these ALSPs will allow law firms to continue their dominance on corporate clients' legal work. Above, Legaltech News highlights a few of the flexible lawyering, document review, consulting, software developer and other subsidiaries created by law firms that have recently made news.
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Who Got The Work
Edmund Polubinski and Marie Killmond of Davis Polk & Wardwell have entered appearances for data platform software development company MongoDB and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The action, filed Oct. 7 in New York Southern District Court by the Brown Law Firm, accuses the company's directors and/or officers of falsely expressing confidence in the company’s restructuring of its sales incentive plan and downplaying the severity of decreases in its upfront commitments. The case is 1:24-cv-07594, Roy v. Ittycheria et al.
Who Got The Work
Amy O. Bruchs and Kurt F. Ellison of Michael Best & Friedrich have entered appearances for Epic Systems Corp. in a pending employment discrimination lawsuit. The suit was filed Sept. 7 in Wisconsin Western District Court by Levine Eisberner LLC and Siri & Glimstad on behalf of a project manager who claims that he was wrongfully terminated after applying for a religious exemption to the defendant's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The case, assigned to U.S. Magistrate Judge Anita Marie Boor, is 3:24-cv-00630, Secker, Nathan v. Epic Systems Corporation.
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Who Got The Work
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