Outsourcing Legal Services: Impact on National Law Practices

Download or read book Outsourcing Legal Services: Impact on National Law Practices written by Dennis Campbell and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special issue of the Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business addresses an important development in the globalization of international law practices, the outsourcing legal services. Practitioners from the Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Gibraltar, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States address a range of issues, including outsourcing legal issues from a law department in a company to a law firm, the monopoly of a country’s law firm for legal advice, sending legal advice to partner law firms abroad, and utilizing foreign providers of basic legal and transactional services (such as services offered in India and The Philippines) for routine legal tasks.