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Solutions for Large Law Firms

Aphelion provides solutions for large law firms through its consulting practice and direct services.

Different law firms have different needs based on their individual business plans. Law firms with over 150 attorneys generally have the following characteristics relevant to whether an offshoring solution is viable or beneficial:

Most legal support work is done in-house with a combination of full-time and part-time staff.
Significant resources have already been committed to establishing and maintaining a sophisticated IT infrastructure.
If given a choice by a client, all core legal work will be done by the firm's own attorneys and paralegals with hourly billable rates set according to experience.
If an offshoring solution is to be pursued, the firm is willing to consider establishing a captive subsidiary as the initial startup costs are less of a deterrent given the firm's overall financial resources.

Aphelion's management has tailored its offshoring solutions for larger law firms with two main goals:

Allowing large law firms to reduce their back office and legal support costs without impacting quality or significantly changing the firm's existing operations protocols.
Protecting large law firms' internal revenue sources by using core legal service offshoring only when it represents additional revenue and can bolster benchmark profits ratios, such as profits per partner and profits per attorney.

Highlights of our tailored solutions for large law firms include:

Using the BOT Model to allow a large firm to realize legal support savings and new profit generation with core legal services.
Minimizing the initial startup cost and longer term risk of establishing an offshore subsidiary.
Providing additional options for flagship clients who do not currently use large law firms for smaller or rate sensitive matters, through any of our three service delivery models.
Leveraging the economies of scale with large law firm operations to create a comprehensive integration with the firm's existing back office, legal support, and IT operations.
Staffing a 24 hour IT helpdesk with personnel trained on the firm's own IT infrastructure.

Large law firms have sometimes viewed offshoring as a threat to their fundamental business model. But as evidenced by the UK firm Clifford Chance, a selective approach to offshoring can enhance a large law firm's operational efficiency, improve its level of client service, and increase profits.

Entity Specific Solutions

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Large Firms (150+ attorneys)
Mid-sized Firms (20-149 attorneys)
Small Firms (2-19 attorneys)
Solo Practitioners
Public Company Legal Department
Private Company Legal Department
E-Discovery Vendors
Court Reporting Companies