As legal process outsourcing (LPO) continues to gain momentum among law firms and managing partners discuss their new cost-saving strategies to send work offshore, it is easy to forget the challenges to successfully export legal work. Clients of the increasing numbers of law firms operating outsourcing arrangements may find themselves concerned by a recent survey by Kroll, which canvassed more than 700 senior executives worldwide, which concluded that companies often make the decision to outsource "without a thorough assessment of the risks involved in determining what is to be outsourced, and to whom". Law firms, which are newer to this game than most corporates, are arguably even more susceptible to making such mistakes.
December 02, 2009 at 08:31 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Legalweek
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As legal process outsourcing (LPO) continues to gain momentum among law firms and managing partners discuss their new cost-saving strategies to send work offshore, it is easy to forget the challenges to successfully export legal work.
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