Interestingly, some of the most sophisticated and frequent
purchasers of legal services — large corporations and insurance companies for example, frequently require outside counsel to provide fixed fees.
He points to research from the Acritas» U.S. Law Firm Brand Index Report, a survey of
purchasers of legal services, which shows general counsel of companies small to large are drawn to firms with global reach even if they don't have global needs.
Perhaps, as MacEwen suggests, conventional rules of ethics and conflict of interest should be modified where
the purchasers of legal services are sophisticated business people.
The study also points out that
purchasers of legal services want better and more relevant technologies, to be used and shared on integrated platforms.
Competition between law firms is increasing, and the request for proposal (RFP) has grown in importance among
purchasers of legal services to become a key tool in the procurement process.
We began with proprietary market research (383 metro - area
purchasers of legal services), finding that inadequate communication caused most problems in attorney / client relationships.
Rankings within the guides are determined by a rigorous interview process between the Chambers research team and Fortune 100 general counsel, high - profile entrepreneurs, significant
purchasers of legal services and law firms.
New Web sites such as ExpertBids, LawPivot, and AttorneyFee.com are offering consumers new tools and approaches for getting the information they need to become effective
purchasers of legal services.
Rankings within the guide are determined by an interview process between the Chambers research team and Fortune 100 general counsel, high - profile entrepreneurs,
purchasers of legal services, and law firms.
There are lots of options to choose from for sophisticated
purchasers of legal services
The needs of
purchasers of legal services are changing dramatically, with a particular emphasis on advisers that offer services beyond legal and make better use of technology, a new survey has revealed.
What has never been part of the equation in this country however is a large firm with a national footprint focused on individual
purchasers of legal services — personal injury, family, wills & estates, and residential real estate.
The historic gap, which in the past has been canyon-esque as I'm fond of saying, this is where the courts developed the idea of fiduciary duty because as there were such dependence on the part of the client on the service provider because the client doesn't know and the client can't be expected to know whether or not they're being treated fairly or properly or what have you to getting good, you're getting good services, and I don't think that gap will ever close entirely but we are seeing
the purchasers of legal services becoming more knowledgeable and more sophisticated, there is.
My staff have been whatever, but around the same time, we began to guess a growing series of options available to
purchasers of legal services and you had this in terms of what I would call substitute for lawyers.
Rankings within the Guides are determined by a rigorous interview process between the Chambers research team and Fortune 100 GCs, high - profile entrepreneurs, significant
purchasers of legal services and law firms.
In some instances, the amount to be paid for legal services is spelled out in some statutory enactments, scheduled for prepaid legal service plans or by
purchasers of legal services on a volume basis.
A new «reverse auction» Web site, Tip - Mart, enables
purchasers of legal services to accept bids from interested lawyers and law firms.
Bob Ambrogi recommends «A new «reverse - auction» Web site, Tip - Mart, which enables
purchasers of legal services to accept bids from interested lawyers and law firms.»
That does tend to suggest that corporate
purchasers of legal services are still not getting...
What Really Matters to
Purchasers of Legal Service?
Not exact matches
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published in June 2016, one in three
legal service purchasers want their
legal services provider to possess industry, commercial and non-
legal expertise, which they currently do not, while 52 %
of in - house
legal departments have considered buying
legal services from non-traditional law firms.
It's a useful tool for professional
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purchasers of legal and accountancy
services tend to ask friends or colleagues for advice and recommendations as part
of the purchasing process.
Henderson: So, at the time it was incredibly rare in the
legal industry for the
purchaser of the
service, the client, to communicate performance expectations to their law firms.
Purchasers of commercial legal services, to this point, operate in a very different corporate environment than purchasers of steel or computer chips or other co
Purchasers of commercial
legal services, to this point, operate in a very different corporate environment than
purchasers of steel or computer chips or other co
purchasers of steel or computer chips or other commodities.
The real cause is that most front - line
purchasers of corporate
legal services (in - house lawyers) care more about what traditional suppliers (law firms) can offer them (strong personal relationships, a reliable brand, routine buying processes, and a familiar culture) than what they can offer the enterprise.
Regardless
of the amount
of effort, time and creative thinking put forth, even the most innovative structure is susceptible to erosion from rate creep if the
legal services purchaser does not think beyond the current year's procurement
of services when structuring their approach to external counsel management.
The ongoing changes in ownership in
legal publishing can leave customers feeling like they are the last thing the owners care about; that the product is another profitable widget from which large margins can be extracted... There was, thirty years ago, a relationship
of service between publisher to
purchaser; now it is a sales person trying to flog a title
of which s / he knows little and cares less, as long as the sale is made.
The government's desire to move to «market based reforms»
of the system is flawed precisely because
legal aid does not operate in a true market, as there is only one monopoly
purchaser of these
services, it being the government itself.
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