Commercial contracts - lease abstraction - legal due diligence - customised projects

Until now, offshore legal services providers and outsourcing companies have largely focussed on the provision of back-office services to law firms. But why - if large and sophisticated clients of law firms have become comfortable with offshoring and outsourcing true legal work - should law firms themselves not also now begin to do that?

As several commentators on the legal market have commented - those law firms which do not begin to embrace the concepts of offshoring and outsourcing risk losing a commercial advantage which they would otherwise obtain.

Most medium and large sized law firms find themselves:-

• Required by clients to do work which is unprofitable to the law firm - but which needs to be done if more lucrative work is not also at risk of being lost;
• Shocked when they actually take the time to analyse the profitability and efficiency of many routine types of work which they undertake; and
• Delegating to junior lawyers tasks such as updating terms and conditions of purchase and sale; agency contracts; distribution contracts, software licences, etc.

NewGalexy typically works with document templates which are pre-agreed with our clients. We are often included in training which our clients use internally within their legal departments. These same features can readily be applied to routine legal tasks undertaken within law firms, allowing law firms to:-

• Improve response and delivery times to their clients;
• Avoid loss-making work;
• Maintain quality and their own styles and "look and feel" of documentation; and
• Win plaudits from their clients for being innovative and creative.

Every law firm will have slightly different issues. NewGalexy is always willing to discuss and explore customised ways of working and identification of optimum means of interaction between our lawyers and our clients' lawyers. For large-scale projects, reciprocal secondments may be appropriate. In any event our working relationship with our clients is always a relationship of "partnering".