These alternative
legal service providers come in many forms.
Not exact matches
These exclusive awards reflect the ever - increasing reorganisation, new
legal entities and business dynamism of legal service providers since the Legal Services Act came into f
legal entities and business dynamism of
legal service providers since the Legal Services Act came into f
legal service providers since the
Legal Services Act came into f
Legal Services Act
came into force.
Australia does not
come anywhere close to England's heavy regulation — no one claims to be suffering from this and no one is calling for heavier regulation of ILPs or other
legal service providers in Australia.
If the
legal services your child gets
come from a
legal service provider that is outside the regulatory framework, it is quite possible they will have no guarantees as to the quality of the
legal services they will get and little or no recourse if there is a problem.
When considering the regulation of
legal service providers, two other related questions
come up.
«It is easy to imagine a U.S.
legal service provider that
comes to the U.K., raises investment capital in the U.K., puts money into technology and develops a more efficient business model, employs U.S. attorneys as registered foreign lawyers, and offers the entire package back to clients in the U.S.» And this may, in fact, be what both LegalZoom and the U.S. law firm of Jacoby and Meyers are doing or are preparing to do now.
I am a little pessimistic about how valuable these may be, as compared with developments that may
come from commercial
providers such as Google and Microsoft After all, Search engines already seek to link problems with
providers and
legal services could be an adjunct to its
services if we collaborated and could provide compatible and reliable information, «Let's sleep with Google,» is the best idea that I have heard
coming out of the two days of the conference.
If the first step is to bring the
legal services providers together (which I wrote about here) and work collaboratively, what
comes next?
Washington state has done something similar [and] we'll be looking at Ontario when it
comes to setting up classes of
legal service providers.
John Stewart: I think that's another area of overlap between Lanse's committee and our technology committee because this gap, this need, this fat middle as we've called it of the population is being underserved by lawyers is where — in the technology world — the online
legal service providers are
coming in.
It's
coming from other firms, alternative
legal service providers and even from clients themselves.
He believes Norwegian law firms must fundamentally rethink their business model in order to maintain their position as the preferred
legal services provider in the years to
come.
Merely by announcing a meeting on a listserv of DC
legal services providers, she got attorneys from nonprofits, law firms, and law schools to
come together and think about ways to celebrate DC's pro bono community and encourage more attorneys to do pro bono work.
We're urging
legal service providers in year four (given that we have the Enron datasets to work with) to
come in and work with us and be part of the research (by) participating in the ongoing program.
Based on the authors» deep understanding of the evolution of ITO and BPO, and their experiences of sourcing LSO, The Rise of
Legal Services Outsourcing addresses the transformation of legal work, LSO strategy, provider selection and contractual governance, as well as predicting the trends that will come to shape the LSO ma
Legal Services Outsourcing addresses the transformation of
legal work, LSO strategy, provider selection and contractual governance, as well as predicting the trends that will come to shape the LSO ma
legal work, LSO strategy,
provider selection and contractual governance, as well as predicting the trends that will
come to shape the LSO market.
Knowing the client's business better only
came in fourth spot in the question we asked about what
legal departments felt was the most important thing their
service providers should do for them.
No longer will consumers have to obtain their
legal services from solicitors; other
providers can now
come forward to offer their wares.
News this week that Axiom is expanding into Canada by acquiring Cognition LLP's general counsel practice should
come as no surprise to anyone who has followed the trajectory of these two alternative
legal service providers.