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Corporate Cost-Cutting Drives Change in Contract Attorney Model

By Bruce Carton

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The contract attorney model is beginning to morph into something that looks quite a bit different, The Legal Intelligencer reports (via Law & More). For many years, the contract attorney model typically worked as follows: A law firm's client would have a need for a large document review. The law firm would then call a staffing agency and request that an appropriate number of contract attorneys be allocated to the project, and that they report to the law firm's office to perform the work. The law firm that was housing the contract attorneys and furnishing them with IT resources would then mark up the rates of the contract attorneys and bill the client. That model is fading, however, as corporations focus more on their bottom line, Now, contract attorneys are being hired directly by the corporations in an effort to cut out the law firms' mark-up and drive down cost. Corporations, said an executive at Juristaff, now call staffing agencies directly and negotiate discounted deals on what they will pay for contract attorneys. They then instruct outside counsel that if the firms have a need for contract attorneys on the clients' matters, they must use certain staffing agencies at the...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on July 12, 2010 (boomark / email).