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July 4, 2013 |
Fifteen of the UK's top 30 law firms by revenue have either set up their own low-cost legal centre or are sending routine legal work to legal process outsourcing (LPO) providers, according to research conducted by Legal Week. Several other leading firms are reviewing their options, including Stephenson Harwood, which is considering opening a low-cost legal centre, and SJ Berwin, which is in early stage talks to outsource its document production team.
By John Malpas
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July 4, 2013 |
At the Global Independent Law Firms Forum, Norton Rose Fulbright chief executive Peter Martyr told John Malpas how he changed his firm's mindset and urged business lawyers to give more back to society
By John Malpas
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June 27, 2013 |
At this year's Legal Week Trust and Estates Litigation Forum, senior lawyers outlined the different approaches to trustee liability adopted by the UK, US, Channel Islands and British Virgin Islands
By John Malpas
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May 23, 2013 |
The noisy building site outside my hotel window last week gave me direct experience of Dubai's steady revival from the economic crash of 2009. The record attendance at Legal Week's Corporate Counsel Forum Middle East and a very lively awards ceremony the following day added to a picture of a legal market that may not be booming, but is certainly finding its feet again after the devastating collapse in confidence following Dubai World's debt restructuring...
By John Malpas
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March 14, 2013 |
At Legal Week's 2012 Corporate Counsel Forum Africa, a panel of senior South Africa-based in-house lawyers discussed ways to manage the risks associated with setting up shop in new African jurisdictions. John Malpas rounds up the discussion
By John Malpas
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July 14, 2010 |
A gathering of leading private client lawyers has given the UK coalition Government's emergency budget a cautious thumbs-up, despite the tension generated by clear differences in the pre-coalition taxation policies of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. Leaders from the private client legal community gathered at the May Fair Hotel in London on 29 June - a week after the emergency budget was delivered - to debate the impact of the package of tax changes unveiled by Chancellor George Osborne.
By John Malpas
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July 7, 2010 |
As part of its response to the credit crisis, Simmons & Simmons' management team made an explicit commitment in its business plan, agreed in the spring of 2009, to look at legal process outsourcing (LPO). Just a few months later the firm struck a deal with the outsourcer Integreon to provide offshore legal support services, including document review, due diligence and document production.
By John Malpas
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The Legal Intelligencer honors lawyers leaving a mark on the legal community in Pennsylvania and Delaware.
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Epstein Becker & Green is seeking an associate to joins its Commercial Litigation practice in our Columbus or Cincinnati offices. Ca...
Job Opportunity: Location: Prestigious Florida Law Firm seeks to hire a Business attorney with at least 5 years of experience for their Ft. ...
MELICK & PORTER, LLP PROMOTES CONNECTICUT PARTNERS HOLLY ROGERS, STEVEN BANKS, and ALEXANDER AHRENS
