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An article by Anne Jennings, a managing director with Kelly Law Registry, in last week's Connecticut Law Tribune looks at "trends expected to shape legal recruitment throughout 2010."[1]  In addition to discussing the merits of onshoring services and document review staging capabilities, Ms. Jennings discusses the growing importance of project management capabilities as a competiive advantage for legal staffing agencies:  There is a growing need for project management services across corporate legal departments and law firms nationwide.... For those firms without a paralegal manager or similar employee to take on large document review projects, specialized recruiting agencies offer experienced legal...

Bierce & Kenerson, P.C. share their version of the electronic-discovery process in a recent post to the firm's Outsourcing-Law.com blog,[1] which they refer to as the "Electronic Discovery Resource Model, not to be confused with the Electronic Discovery Reference Model ("EDRM"). Bierce & Kenerson's diagram provides another way of looking at the e-discovery process and may be more user friendly for some lawyers.  [1] Bierce & Kenerson, P.C., E-Discovery and Legal Process Outsourcing: ESIM Process Design and Choices between Outsourcing vs. Insourcing, Periodical Name, Dec. 21, 2009, available at http://www.outsourcing-law.com/2009/12/e-discovery-and-legal-process-outsourcing-esim-process-design-and-choices-between-outsourcing-vs-insourcing/ (last visited on Dec. 31, 2009).(Note, the title when I originally...

Legal staffing agencies that also stage and manage document reviews have long highlighted their project management expertise to differentiate their services from competitors who only provide warm bodies. In an interview published Tuesday on the Metropolitan Corporate Counsel Web site, Meron I. Hewis, Account Manager at Kelly Law Registry, notes that "law firms are looking for cost savings for their clients with project management expertise by introducing them to [outsourced discovery solutions]," such as those provided by Kelly Law Registry at their Litigation Discovery Center in Troy, Michigan.[1] Increasingly, legal staffing agencies are touting their project management expertise as a way to distinguish themselves...

If you manage large electronic discovery projects, you will likely find yourself working with off shore vendors at some point. As corporations continue to look for ways to drive down legal costs; more coding, data processing, and document review work is being sent overseas--especially to India.If you are unfamiliar with outsourcing, you might want to check out two webinars that the Project Management Institute's Services & Outsourcing Specific Interest Group (PMI SAO SIG) will present back to back on June 17th. While these do not specifically address legal outsourcing, they provide valuable insights into what a successful outsourcing relationship requires...