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In house counsels are increasingly reducing the law firm panels. Read here.
A detailed and well researched piece on drivers in LPO growth here.
How to reduce in house legal costs. 10 metrics, here.
Torts remain unaffected in the recession, here.

One of the main issues confronting the profession of law in Nigeria is whether lawyers should bid competitively for their services. There are many pros and cons to this issue. A few of the same have been discussed below:
Can lawyers be treated as contractors ? Opinions on this vary from individual to individual. In highly [...]

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 [...]

Lexis Nexis has releases a new study on “Effects of the Current Economic Downturn on U.S. Law Departments”. This report can be downloaded here.
In this study about 10% of respondents said they Outsource Legal work offshore. As Rees Morrison,  has observed on his blog that these numbers are appear unexpectedly high, since about half the [...]