ALSP – Not Just Your Daddy’s LPO, Part Two: eDiscovery Trends
By Tom O’Connor
Editor’s Note: Tom O’Connor is a nationally known consultant, speaker, and writer in the field of computerized litigation support systems. He has also been a great addition to our webinar program, participating with me on several recent webinars. Tom also wrote a terrific four partinformational overview on Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) titled eDiscovery and the GDPR: Ready or Not, Here it Comes (and participated with me on a webcast on the same topic) and wrote another terrific five part informational overview on Understanding eDiscovery in Criminal Cases. Now, Tom has written another terrific overview regarding Alternative Legal Service Providers titled ALSP – Not Just Your Daddy’s LPO that we’re happy to share on the eDiscovery Daily blog. Enjoy! – Doug
Tom’s overview is split into four parts, so we’ll cover each part separately. We covered part one last Thursday. Here’s part two.
What is an ALSP?
The first consideration in understanding new generation ALSPs is to understand how ALSP is defined. In general, ALSPs are niche companies that specialize in providing such high-demand legal services as:
The first consideration in understanding new generation ALSPs is to understand how ALSP is defined. In general, ALSPs are niche companies that specialize in providing such high-demand legal services as:
- Human Resources
- IT Services
- Document Review
- Contract Management
- Litigation Support
- ECA
- Analytics
- Discovery and Electronic Discovery
- Contract Lawyers and Staffing
- Investigation Support and Legal Research
- IP Management
- Due Diligence
Industries such as banking started outsourcing IT services as a means to reduce costs almost 30 years ago. And now businesses and law firms are doing the same thing in the area of document services by turning to these new generation ALSP companies for even routine legal services that are too expensive and time-consuming to do in-house.According to the Thompson-Reuters Legal Executive Institute report, there are five categories of ALSPs.
