Legal services outsourcing—in-house lawyers—information gathering


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Practice notes

Legal services outsourcing—in-house lawyers—information gathering


Published by a ÀÏ˾»úÎçÒ¹¸£Àû Practice Compliance expert

Practice notes
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This Practice Note is intended for in-house lawyers considering Outsourcing some legal services to external suppliers of legal services. It forms part of a suite of tools and guidance to assist you with the outsourcing decision. This Practice Note is intended to be used at the start of the process. It is designed to help you gather the information required to decide whether you need to use, ie outsource work to, external suppliers of legal services. See also Practice Notes:

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    Legal services outsourcing—in-house lawyers—which legal services to outsource

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    Legal services outsourcing—in-house lawyers—outsourcing options

Ultimately, the purpose of gathering information is to formulate a strategy on legal services outsourcing. See Precedent: Legal services outsourcing strategy.

Whether you are thinking about the possibility of outsourcing some legal services or, you’ve been given the immediate objective of reducing spend on external legal support, you need to start by gathering information.

You need to understand:

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    what legal support has previously been and is currently being used by your organisation

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    what types and volumes of legal support

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What does Outsourcing mean?

Using a third party to undertake work that a law firm or in-house team would normally do for themselves and for which the firm or in-house team remain responsible.

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