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Global demand for non-traditional legal services, such as contract lawyers and document-review services, will rise sharply over the next five years, research for Allen & Overy has found.

With ever-increasing financial pressure being felt across the legal industry, never has it been more important for firms and providers to have a proper understanding and handle on their cost base and on all the options available to them. One of these options is outsourcing. It is possible to make significant cost savings through outsourcing some (even much) of the work that is currently done in-house. Wherever you look these days, solicitors and legal providers are bombarded with advertisements and promises about outsourcing. And the potential is huge with pretty much everything up for grabs.

The outsourcing arm of FTSE 250 construction company Carillion could become an alternative business structure (ABS) as it looks to grow its advice services team beyond in-house and legal aid work, it has emerged.

Big Four accountancy firm PwC has launched a new service aimed at helping in-house lawyers look at how they operate internally – and also manage their external legal advice. PwC has hired Stephen Allen, formerly director of innovation at City law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner, to head it.

Mahy: something that somebody should have thought of before
Using ex-City lawyer parents looking to return to practice is a way for in-house lawyers and law firms to onshore services that many people are saying should be offshored, a former FTSE 100 general counsel said this week.