Establishing an effective discovery response team (DRT) can help your organization greatly reduce the costs associated with discovery. A DRT can also reduce the impact of litigation on daily business operations by assembling internal expertise and domain knowledge – particularly of key personnel and the IT infrastructure – and driving repeatable processes that will increase [...]

For organizations in highly regulated or litigious industries, responding to legal and regulatory matters has become a normal course of business. Establishing discovery as a business process, rather than reacting to discovery matters on an ad hoc basis, enables organizations to ensure a complete and defensible process that also controls costs and reduces business disruption. [...]

Today’s fast evolving technology landscape is challenging the ability of e-discovery professionals to keep up. From cloud computing and social media to technology-assisted review, the impact of technology innovation on the discovery process and how organizations are adapting to the changes were the focus of a recent roundtable discussion hosted by Integreon. Viewpoints and recommendations [...]

Bob Gogel and Tony O’Malley In a Boardroom Radio audio cast, Mallesons offers LPO with Integreon (October 27, 2011), Integreon’s Bob Gogel (CEO) and Mallesons’ Tony O’Malley (Managing Partner) comment about their firms’ recently announced preferred supplier agreement for legal process outsourcing (LPO) support services. Widely reported as a first for the Australian legal services [...]

Main Responsibilities Coordinate workflow between different teams in a department Ensure milestones and targets are met with respect to project development Ensure all documentation is complete and up-to-date for all live and new projects Maintain all internal metrics; run weekly metrics reporting   Requirements Candidate must possess at least a Bachelor’s Degree, any field At [...]

This is a live blog post from the International Legal Technology Association annual conference.   The panelists for the session Offshoring and Outsourcing are Toby Brown, Vinson & Elkins, Kevin Colangelo, Pangea3, and Jordan Furlong, Edge International.  [This is a real time blog entry, posted as this session ended; additional commentary available at Twitter #ILTA11 #INFO2] [...]

Document review is a critical component of the e-discovery process and a subject that I often speak and write about. Resource-intensive review in particular is an area that gets a lot of attention, especially with many law firms and corporations focusing on cost containment of the discovery process. We’ve worked with many clients to help [...]

Two recent publications point to continuing changes in the legal market: Lawyers Settle… for Temp Jobs in the Wall Street Journal (15 June 2011) reports on the “growing field of itinerant ‘contract’ attorneys who move from job to job, getting paid by the hour, largely to review documents for law firms and corporate clients.”  About [...]

Legal process outsourcing (LPO) has long meant “India” to many lawyers.  We have often written that LPO is about working smarter, not where the work is done.  A New York Times article last week drives home this point.  And an American Lawyer op-ed explains the “news behind the news” in the Times. Legal Outsourcing Firms [...]

Last month I read an insightful blog post at Horses for Sources, the advisory business of respected outsourcing analyst Phil Fersht.  In a guest post, Where have all the consultants gone?, Deborah Kops, principal of sourcing strategy firm Sourcing Change, looks at developments in the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry.  Because the roots of legal [...]