LLRX.com – Ethics of Legal Outsourcing White Paper: The practical reality for US and UK attorneys engaging in or contemplating Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) is that the outsourcing of both core legal and support services across the legal profession is nothing new. What is different today with the emergence of the LPO industry is that both core legal and legal support related services are being outsourced to lawyers, law firms and corporations located offshore in countries such as India, South Africa and the Philippines. Mark Ross analyzes how the outsourcing of legal work by a law firm or legal department to a legal outsourcing company or an entity located offshore raises specific issues pertaining to the outsourcing lawyer’s ethical obligations to his or her client.
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Daily Archives: February 15, 2010
New on LLRX.com – Effective Project Management: the Art of Creating Scope Statements
LLRX.com – Effective Project Management: the Art of Creating Scope Statements – Carol A. Watson’s discussion of how well-defined scope statements are the key to successful project management continues with this article focused on how all written documentation should be clearly and concisely written, avoiding ambiguities at all costs. Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com: Preserving Born-Digital Legal Materials – Where to Start?
LLRX.com: Preserving Born-Digital Legal Materials – Where to Start?: Sarah Rhodes discusses the monumental challenge of preserving our digital heritage. She argues that law libraries specifically have a critically important role to play in this undertaking as access to legal and law-related information is a core underpinning of our democratic society. Our current digital preservation… Continue Reading
Investigative Resources, Due-Diligence Tips and Useful War Stories For Doing Business in a Complex World
Investigative Resources, Due-Diligence Tips and Useful War Stories For Doing Business in a Complex World – Eight Lessons from Recent Due-Diligence Background-Checking Gone Wrong. James Mintz Group, Global Fact Finding, Issue Five, February 2010 “The unmasking of Bernard Madoff has made many business people uneasy about the ventures they invest in, and the new partners… Continue Reading
Some News Organizations Persist in Using FOIA, and Prevail
New York Times: “Some big companies, like Hearst and The Associated Press, have been quietly ramping up their legal efforts, by doing more of the work in-house and saving costs by not hiring outside lawyers and being more aggressive in states where they can recoup legal fees and at the federal level, which… Continue Reading
Ready.gov: learn more about winter weather preparedness
“The Ready Campaign asks individuals to do three key things to prepare for the unexpected: (1) get an emergency supply kit, (2) make a family emergency plan, and (3) be informed about the different types of emergencies that could occur and their appropriate responses.” Continue Reading
Change in Endowment Market Value from FY 2008 to FY 2009 For College and University Endowment Funds
U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2009 Endowment Market – Value and Percentage Change in Endowment Market Value from FY 2008 to FY 2009 Related postings on financial system Continue Reading
Racial disparities persist in the diagnosis of advanced breast cancer and colon cancer in the United States
News release: “The incidence of advanced breast cancer diagnosis among black women remained 30 percent to 90 percent higher compared to white women between 1992 and 2004, according to new findings by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. In addition, the disparity in the incidence of advance colorectal cancer actually widened over this time… Continue Reading
U.S. Metro Economies Pace of Economic Recovery: GMP and Jobs
U.S. Metro Economies Pace of Economic Recovery: GMP and Jobs – The United States Conference of Mayors and The Council for the New American City “The U.S. unemployment rate will peak in the first quarter of 2010, averaging 10.2% between January-March. This is up from a whopping 4.9% just two years earlier. The tremendous rise… Continue Reading
Central Intelligence Agency Freedom of Information Act Annual Report
Central Intelligence Agency Freedom of Information Act Annual Report Fiscal Year 2009. Released February 1, 2010. Continue Reading
