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At the Intersection: Cutting Corners

By Pamela Woldow and Doug Richardson
November 02, 2014

In this second of three related posts, we consider whether clients' increasing efforts to control outside legal spend forces their outside counsel to “cut corners.” Are firms being forced to compromise service quality and integrity in order to meet client price points? Are Legal Project Management (LPM) and Legal Process Improvement (LPI), which are supposed to foster efficiency and cost-effectiveness, actually having the paradoxical effect of pushing law firms past “doing more with less” to the point where it becomes acceptable “to do less with less”?

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