Outsourcing

Congratulations to the partners at Latham and Littler for finding a new way to pad their pockets, and condolences to the support staff who are being forced to choose between their locations and their livelihoods.

If you're doing any of these things, you're doing it wrong.

The fate of the billable hour, how small firms can compete with large ones, the evil of profits per partner, and more.

There's a revolution happening in the practice of law -- and you should join it.

Which major law firm is consolidating its back-office operations, in which state?

Dean Frank Wu tackles this question: What legal specialties offer jobs that are sexy, new, and numerous?

Which top-tier law firm is conducting staff layoffs due to outsourcing -- and could this be a good thing in the end, for both the firm and the employees?

Examining the persistent threat that contract attorney jobs will move overseas.

Yet another large law firm is making significant cuts. Which one is it this time?

If you thought that working in "tech" would protect you from being laid off, think again.

Staffers and lawyers are heading out the door, in the wake of a management change.

* It looks like it’s time for yet another rousing game of Biglaw musical chairs. This time, 11 of Bingham McCutchen’s securities enforcement partners are hightailing it over to Sidley Austin en masse. [DealBook / New York Times]

* This week in on-shore outsourcing: there may be a job waiting for you at Kaye Scholer’s new operations center (so new we bet you didn’t know about it), so hurry up and apply, because the interviews are soon. [Tallahassee Democrat]

* “We’re trained in the law and persuasion, not firearms.” But maybe you should be? After the targeted killing of attorneys in Texas, prosecutors are now on high alert. [New York Times]

* When looking at the current law school model, Paul Caron of TaxProf Blog urges law deans to take advice from Jimmy McMillan because “law school tuition is simply too damn high.” [Businessweek]

* Change our admissions practices amid the worst legal economy we’ve seen in decades? “Ain’t nobody got time for that,” scoffed Sarah Zearfoss, director of admissions at Michigan Law. [AnnArbor.com]

* Drexel Law will accept applications for its two-year law degree program in May 2014. The higher-ups at the ABA are scheduled to laugh their asses off on or about the same date. [Philadelphia Inquirer]

* “[F]or James Eagan Holmes, justice is death.” In a move that shocked absolutely no one, the prosecution in the Aurora, Colorado movie theater massacre case is seeking the death penalty. [CNN]

Think that life for Biglaw partners is a bowl of cherries? Think again.

Are the reports of Biglaw’s death greatly exaggerated? In-house columnist Mark Herrmann shares his thoughts on whether times have permanently changed for Biglaw firms.

Another law firm is sending its Records Management functions to an outside provider, resulting in staff layoffs. Which firm?

In-sourcing is the new black for law firms...

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Over the summer, we wondered: what can law firms do to prepare for a possible double-dip recession? One obvious answer: firms can “right-size” themselves, by making sure that they are as lean and as mean as they can be. And this seems to be what has been happening over the past few months. We haven’t […]