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Solutions for Mid-sized Law Firms

Aphelion provides solutions for mid-sized law firms through its consulting practice and direct services.

Different law firms have different needs based on their individual business plans. Law firms with more than 20 attorneys and less than 150 attorneys generally have the following characteristics relevant to whether an offshoring solution is viable or beneficial:

Certain in-house employees handle back office and legal support work, but some of the work may already be outsourced to third party providers.
Without a larger firm's economies of scale, the existing IT infrastructure may be limited and/or the firm may only have limited personnel available to maintain and support its IT infrastructure.
For larger clients paying hourly, all core legal work will be done by the firm's own attorneys and paralegals with hourly billable rates set according to experience.
The firm may be willing to accept matters where the legal fees are contingent, and therefore, no revenue will be drawn on that matter until its conclusion.
The firm does have significant financial resources, but not enough to realistically consider establishing and managing a subsidiary operation offshore.

Aphelion's management has tailored its offshoring solutions for mid-sized law firms with four main goals:

Allowing mid-sized law firms to reduce their back office and legal support costs without impacting quality or significantly changing the firm's existing operations protocols.
Protecting mid-sized 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.
Enabling mid-sized law firms to compete for larger matters without having to retain additional full time employees.
Minimizing the upfront cost exposure and risk involved with contingency fee and fee deferred matters.

Highlights of our tailored solutions for mid-sized law firms include:

Using the BOT Model to allow a mid-sized firm to realize legal support savings and new profit generation with core legal services.
Providing additional options for clients with larger matters requiring significant human resources.
Upgrading, supporting, and maintaining the IT infrastructure, including an affordable 24 hour helpdesk solution.
Secure voicemail server integration permitting state of the art voicemail transcription services and electronic delivery to attorneys according to each attorney's individual preferences.

Depending on its specific practice and size, a mid-sized law firm may also benefit from some of Aphelion's solutions tailored for large law firms and small law firms.

Some mid-sized law firms have viewed offshoring as a threat to their fundamental business model. But as evidenced by the foray of Bickel & Brewer into India several years ago, mid-sized law firms can see a substantial benefit from a careful approach to offshoring.

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