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Billable Hours? Legal Process Outsourcing to the Rescue
The billable hour is a mainstay of the traditional law firm. Direct links can be drawn between law firm input, output, and revenue. However, it is increasingly viewed as a problem that is...
Boom or Bust: COVID-19 and the Legal Outsourcing M&A Market
Legal process outsourcing is experiencing the dawn of a new era. In what was widely perceived as a hand-off from the FinTech Revolution, LegalTech and ALSPs are the new golden child of private...
History of HR and Recruitment: Industrial Revolution to the Gig Economy
The “HR function” is not new to the world of work. From the Egyptians logging worker attendance to the introduction of ping pong tables to office spaces – people management has existed in...
ALSP 2023 Predictions
The legal industry has undergone a significant transformation over recent years. The demand for greater efficiency and client-orientated approaches in the delivery of legal services has...
The World’s Top NewLaw Companies – 2023 Edition
Welcome to the highly anticipated 2023 edition of the World’s Top NewLaw Companies. 2023 ushers in a precarious era for NewLaw, the growing category of alternative legal service providers...
What are the Penalties for Violating European Competition Law?
The competition authorities in the European Union aggressively try to blatant anti competitive behaviour. EU competition law in particular seeks to ensure that firms do not abuse their dominant...
When will a corporate officer be charged with a criminal violation of the American antitrust laws?
Paying treble damages is not the only severe penalty the American antitrust enforcers can impose on those who violate the Sherman Antitrust Act and other provisions of American antitrust law. The...
How do the Antitrust Enforcers Regulate Horizontal Mergers in the United States?
If a merger (or acquisition) makes headlines, it is most likely a horizontal merger. A horizontal merger is a merger between two firms that make the same product. Nonhorizontal mergers, while...
Private Antitrust Claims in the United States
Treble damages are perhaps the most well-known aspect of private antitrust litigation in the United States. A plaintiff successfully prosecuting an antitrust claim can indeed recover, not just...
Private Competition Law Claims in Europe
Private enforcement of a competition law claim is one of the most increasingly common forms of litigation in the European Union. Many factors are, together, driving this litigation explosion....
European Commission Horizontal Merger Control
Only the largest European mergers are subject to the EU Merger Regulation. See “When will the European Commission Review a Merger?” If the European Commission does not review a transaction, then...
Vertical Restraints in the United States
Vertical restraints are terms in a distribution agreement with imposes a restraint on a business practice of a firm in a different level of the distribution system. A distributor, for example,...