Managing the Law Firm Risk Role in Outsourcing

Managing the Law Firm Risk Role in Outsourcing Toby Brown at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog discusses risk and ethics for legal outsourcing

The Unanswered ILTA Questions

The Unanswered ILTA Questions

Toby Brown of the 3 Geeks and a Law Blog about his participation in the "Offshoring and Outsourcing: What It Means for Your Firm and Your Job" panel at ILTA recently. He reported two questions and answers regarding law firm libraries and outsourcing...so go read the post!

Eggs in a basket

The recent break-in and subsequent spams from companies using Epsilon services for email marketing has Greg Lambert at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog musing about the risks and benefits of putting your virtual eggs in the same virtual basket.

Private company taking over public library management

I saw this while browsing the New York Times app on the bus this morning. Be sure to read some of the associated reader comments as well - people are not happy with public libraries being take over by private companies.

Anger as a Private Company Takes Over Libraries
By DAVID STREITFELD
New York Times

Published: September 26, 2010S
ANTA CLARITA, Calif. — A private company in Maryland has taken over public libraries in ailing cities in California, Oregon, Tennessee and Texas, growing into the country’s fifth-largest library system.

Now the company, Library Systems & Services, has been hired for the first time to run a system in a relatively healthy city, setting off an intense and often acrimonious debate about the role of outsourcing in a ravaged economy. (cont)

Legal outsourcing

Attorneys are moving from the West to India.

Legal Outsourcing Pulls Western Talent to India

New York Times
by Heather Timmons
August 4, 2010

NOIDA, INDIA — As an assistant attorney general for New York State, Christopher Wheeler used to spend most of his time arguing in courtrooms in New York City.

Today, he works in a sprawling, unfinished planned suburb of New Delhi, where office buildings are sprouting from empty lots and dirt roads are fringed with fresh juice stalls and construction rubble. (cont)