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CPA names new outsourcing head after departure former Rio Tinto lawyer Cooper
CPA Global has appointed a new head of legal service outsourcing (LSO) following the departure of former LSO chief Leah Cooper. Cooper left the company in November last year for family reasons according to CPA, with the outsourcer’s chief financial ...
06 Feb 2012 | 10:32
Taylor Wessing to offer LPO to law firms with low-cost business spin-off
Taylor Wessing is set to offer legal process outsourcing (LPO) services to other law firms with plans to spin off its document review business now underway. The firm is currently appointing an adviser to look at a demerger of its New Street Solutio...
03 Feb 2012 | 12:15
Integreon opens first UK LPO base and ramps up temp paralegal service
Integreon has launched the first-ever onshore legal process outsourcing (LPO) centre in the UK, as the outsourcer ramps up its temp paralegal service for clients. The new LPO centre opened in Bristol this month after a request from a global client,...
27 Jan 2012 | 00:00
Olswang shortlists LPO providers in preparation for new panel
Olswang is set to appoint a panel of legal process outsourcers (LPOs) to carry out low-value document review work for the firm. The firm has identified a shortlist of seven LPOs with a view to selecting three to act as its preferred providers wh...
20 Jan 2012 | 00:00 | 1 comment
Eversheds mulls low-cost service after joint LPO bid falls through
Eversheds has abandoned plans to set up a legal process outsourcing (LPO) venture with consulting firm Accenture and is instead drafting up options for an in-house alternative. The top 10 law firm is in the early stages of designing a new in-house ...
08 Dec 2011 | 00:00 | 
Former Charles Russell managing partner takes up role as chairman of LPO company
Charles Russell’s former managing partner James Holder (pictured) has taken up a new role as chairman of UK business and legal process outsourcing company Global BPO. Holder, who stepped down as managing partner at Charles Russell in May this yea...
23 Nov 2011 | 00:00 |
White & Case to open second outsourcing centre in Eastern Europe
White & Case is set to overhaul its outsourcing arrangements, with the US firm planning to launch a second business process outsourcing (BPO) base in Eastern Europe in 2012. The US firm, which has operated a BPO base in Manila since 2007, is currently...
21 Nov 2011 | 11:57 |
Boutique radiant.law leads on £1.4bn admin and IT outsourcing project for Friends Life
Outsourcing boutique radiant.law has scooped up a lead role on a £1.4bn outsourcing project for financial services group Friends Life to the UK subsidiary of India’s Tata Consultancy Services, Diligenta. The boutique, which was created early ...
17 Nov 2011 | 00:00 |
Field Fisher appoints first-ever chief operating officer
Field Fisher Waterhouse has appointed its first-ever chief operating officer (COO) to oversee the firm’s business services and support functions. Charlie Keeling, who has been with Field Fisher since 2008 as its human resources (HR) director, wil...
10 Nov 2011 | 00:00 |
Olswang makes out-of-season partner promotion with outsourcing lawyer made up
Olswang has made an out-of-season partner promotion in response to an upturn in work in the outsourcing sector. Matthew Bennett has joined the partnership as of 1 November in the firm's commercial group.
08 Nov 2011 | 11:27 |
Bevan Brittan to transfer 75 staff in back-office outsourcing deal
Bevan Brittan is set to agree a business process outsourcing deal with Intelligent Office UK that is expected to see 75 of the law firm's staff joining the outsourcer. The Bristol firm is in detailed discussions about outsourcing back office servic...
28 Oct 2011 | 15:34 |
Australia's Mallesons signs up to outsourcing deal with Integreon
Australian firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques has signed a legal process outsourcing (LPO) agreement with Integreon. The deal, announced today (27 October), will see Integreon becoming Mallesons’ preferred supplier of legal process outsourcing. It will t...
27 Oct 2011 | 11:44 |
Squire Sanders Hammonds signs up Pinsents partner as outsourcing and procurement chief
Squire Sanders Hammonds has recruited a partner from Pinsent Masons to head its global outsourcing and procurement group. Garfield Smith joined the firm on 1 October from Pinsents, where he had been a partner for four years and headed the financial...
21 Oct 2011 | 14:59 |
Irwin Mitchell transfers 81 staff to outsourcer ahead of ABS switch
Irwin Mitchell is set to outsource 81 support staff ahead of its planned conversion to an alternative business structure (ABS). The move is part of the firm's five-year deal to offload its facilities operations to business process outsourcing compa...
17 Oct 2011 | 10:56 |
Addleshaws ramps ups paralegal numbers at new centre to cut client fees
Addleshaw Goddard has grown the number of paralegals in its recently-formed transaction services team (TST) in Manchester to more than 40 as the national law firm prepares to send more chargeable work to the centre in a bid to keep costs down for clie...
06 Oct 2011 | 00:00 |
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