DUBLIN, Ireland–LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c63593) has announced the addition of “2006 Law Firm Outsourcing Survey” to their offering.
This report examines the outsourcing of operational and administrative functions of law firms in areas including human resources, document production and management, IT support, and finances.
The 2006 Outsourcing Survey, conducted between 10/24/05 and 11/29/05, is the first of its kind. The purpose of the survey was to examine outsourcing trends in U.S. law firms. It was designed to examine the outsourcing of operational and administrative functions of law firms—work related to human resources, document production and management, and IT support and finances; it does not explore the outsourcing of legal work, a topic which raises several unique issues that we believe should be explored in a separate survey.
Participants
Of the 365 U.S. firms invited to participate, 59 responded, representing a solid 16% response rate. The respondents themselves were a mix of law firm executive directors, managing partners and CFOs, and the responding firms came from a very wide range of U.S. cities, with a slightly heavier concentration from the Midwest. Firm sizes ranged from 25 to 2500 lawyers broken down into four groups as described in the chart on the left. For purposes of this report, the groups of 25 to 80 lawyers and 181 to 324 lawyers are defined as “Smaller Firms,” and those with 325 to 699 lawyers and 700+ lawyers are defined as Larger Firms.”
Areas covered:
– Demographics of Survey Participants
– Key Findings
– Variances Based on Function and Service
– Document Production and Records Management
– Administrative Services
– IT Functions
– Finance Function
– Vendors Used
Companies mentioned:
– ADP
– American Express
– American Express One
– AT&T
– Bowne (Williams Lea)
– Century Payroll
– Ceridian
– DTI
– eGroup
– EXENET LLC
– Five Star Legal
– FLIK
– Food For Thought
– Guarantee Express
– Guest Services
– IKON
– IntelliTeach
– Lawyers Travel
– Lehman-Smith McLesh
– Management Alternatives
– Mark G. Anderson Company
– MCS
– Merrill
– Move Solutions
– Navigant Travel
– Newport
– Oce
– OCE/Archer
– Office Tiger
– PBMS
– Pitney Bowes
– Pomeroy IT Solutions
– Reliable Copy
– Site Scan
– Sodexho
– Synergy
– Tek systems
– Total Document Solutions
– Uniscribe
– VC3
– VertuIT
– Williams Lea
– Wise Consulting
– World Travel
– Xerox
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