LPOs Stealing Deal Work from Law Firms
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That is the title of this video interview of law firm consultant Kent Zimmermann of the Zeughauser Group. In the interview, Zimmermann relates a story from a recent large law firm retreat in which one of the partners raised her hand and said that one of her major clients in the healthcare industry recently used Axiom in an M&A deal. Not for due diligence. They used Axiom for the whole deal.
For what it is worth, I think we have a language / perceptions gap at work here. At least in the winter of 2013, the phrase “Legal Process Outsourcers” tends to connote masses of low-level attorneys toiling away doing low-level work in India, the Philippines, South Africa or in small or middle market cities in the U.S. — i.e., a simple labor arbitrage play.
But Axiom’s competitive advantage is in understanding the clients’ needs and working backwards to a solution. The value here is in (a) listening carefully to the client (e.g., “we want the same or better quality but lower and more predictable pricing”), and (b) in designing and building a system that delivers that outcome.
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