Emergence of Litigation Support Professional (LSP)

Matador Legal — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:22:11 +0000

In the last 10 years, the growth of electronic discovery has lead to the emergence of a new profession called Litigation Support. The litigation support professionals (LSP) as they are called are increasingly involved in earlier phases of the e-discovery process, such as identification, preservation, collection and discovery conference preparation. It is believed that most of these positions are held by Posse List members/contract attorneys (The Posse List is over 7 years old and its membership now exceeds 16,000 contract lawyers worldwide) who have moved full-time and part-time into the field.

With the rise in number of such litigation support professionals, there are plans of exploring a certification process for this new profession.

Source:

http://www.theposselist.com/2009/07/17/the-rise-of-the-litigation-support-professional/

http://www.theposselist.com/the-posse-list/

UK Judge expects legal outsourcing to grow

Matador Legal — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:50:23 +0000

A report by UK Judge, Justice Rupert Johnson expects the legal outsourcing phenomena to grow. The full report is expected to come out by the end of the year. The report titled, the civil litigation cost review aims to analyse the economic relationship between law firms, their clients and the courts.

The final report also will contain recommendations on how the relationship between courts, law firms and their client can be made more streamlined and cost effective. The initial report highlights two areas of legal support that have a tremendous potential in the outsourcing space, e-discovery and IP.

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Emergence of Litigation Support Professional (LSP)

UK Judge expects legal outsourcing to grow