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Breaking Tradition: How New Law is Challenging Big Law

As clients adapt the way they source and purchase legal services, competition and collaboration among new and traditional providers is increasing. In the decade since the Great Recession, when alternative options really came onto the scene with the promise of offering a better way, the numbers and types of providers have exploded. Over the next year, we aim to bring clarity around who those alternative providers are, what they are offering, who they are representing, where they get their talent and what piece of the market they have and could attain. You\'ll meet the players, hear from clients, see examples of collaboration, learn the offerings and gain clarity into this rapidly growing segment of the legal services market.

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Elite Firms Deepen Ties to ALSPs in New Division of Labor

With these new partnerships, law firm lawyers devise the high-level strategy and outside providers execute on it.

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The Washington, D.C., antitrust practice at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has always relied on some form of outside help when aiding clients in securing merger clearances.

The firm is simply not equipped to process the review of millions of documents requested by the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice or the Federal Trade Commission over a two- to three-week timetable. But while it used to turn to roughly 50 contract reviewers under a layer of associates, the firm has minted a new relationship with alternative provider Level Legal to spin off more of the work.

“If you find the right ALSP about document review, one that you’re confident in, you can turn over more of the process,” said Freshfields antitrust counsel Rich Snyder.

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Dan Packel

Dan Packel

Dan Packel covers change and innovation in the legal services market, and writes a weekly briefing for Law.com, "The Law Firm Disrupted," on these subjects. He is based in Philadelphia. Contact him at [email protected] On Twitter at @packeld

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