The legal world becomes a far better place when you take deep breaths and surrender to the what is beginning to be known as "the Better Law Mantra":
Right people. Right skills. Right place. Right price.
Those four very short sentences are your path to legal enlightenment, i.e., getting the most bang for your legal buck and perhaps more importantly peace of mind!
When done wrong, or out of balance, your legal experience will be similar to to that of an inexperienced yogi pulling a hamstring and with no one around to help you off the floor as you writhe in excruciating pain on the floor!
The 'new' legal world is so confusing, what path should we follow?: BigLaw, MidLaw, NewLaw, Outsourcing, Insourcing, Offshore, Onshore, Captive, etc.? And if we go with "Offshore," do we choose India, South Africa, Ireland, Argentina, or Timbuktu? How is this in any way better, or more simple?! Sounds more like a recipe to add new layers of cost to an already incredibly expensive system. Patience, grasshoppers, let’s not get too ahead of ourselves on our search for nirvana. The answer for most, at least in the near-term, is the emergence of “co-sourcing.” - You don't have to stretch the imagination very much to realise the what co-sourcing is!
Instead of going down with the ship, a a number of firms, indeed even wise sole practitioners are grasping the 'co-sourcing lifeline' as a way to transition from the old model to the brave new legal world.
These intrepid and innovative few realize that co-sourcing allows them to utilize one of BigLaw’s core strengths, providing an end-to-end solution to clients’ legal needs, but now doing so at a fair market price. Of course, to deliver at this competitive price, they have no choice but to partner with one or more 'NewLaw' providers.
Done right, that co-sourcing, or strategic partnership, can, take a deep breath, and repeat together with me: "provide the right people, with the right skills, in the right place, at the right price. BigLaw wins, NewLaw wins, Client wins. Namaste. Jeez....now that I’ve essentially solved the legal industry’s biggest problem, and told its clients how to embrace it, maybe it’s time to move on to global warming or....or something of the sort!

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