According to data from Apperio, the median number of outsourced law firms and alternative legal service providers (ALSPs) used by corporate legal departments is 46, with large organizations engaging an average of 158 law firms and over 5ALSPs.
Managing all those providers can be a big, disjointed mess! Each provider typically has its own protocols for working with clients, its own approach to contract agreements and execution of contract terms, its own processes and workflows and its own platform for managing your cases. Security measures and protocols can vary widely. The lack of standardization leads to significant inefficiencies and drives up the potential for errors and data breaches exponentially – it’s the tail wagging the dog!
Not only that, but communications with so many vendors and providers can be convoluted – it may seem like you’re always “jumping through hoops” to reach the right contacts at these companies. You’re dependent on information and updates from them – at their pace – instead of having the autonomy to get needed information and updates on your own. This wastes valuable time on your projects you can’t afford to waste.
All these factors lead to lack of consistency, lack of data integrity, lack of cost containment and lack of control.
At PLUSnxt, we understand the pitfalls and challenges of working with a variety of vendors and providers and how doing so leads to inefficiencies, greater data vulnerability and drives up costs. Through our expertise and technology, PLUSnxt can provide the people, process and technology that will help streamline your outsourcing needs:
People: PLUSnxt’s team of Project Managers (PMs) andSubject Matter Experts (SMEs) has documented expertise and experience inassisting our clients in taking control over the eDiscovery process for all their cases. We provide technology and first-pass review management services that complement the services of your outsourced providers, ensuring that they can focus on the services you hired them for in the first place.
Process: eDiscovery is about workflows, and efficient eDiscovery dictates streamlining of those workflows. The PLUSnxt dedicated team of experts can work with your team to build out consistent workflows that enables your team to become the driver of your own eDiscovery process instead of conforming to dozens of processes and workflows from different vendors.
Technology: Eliminating inefficiencies and standardizing workflows is facilitated by leveraging technology. PLUSnxt’s comprehensive and tailored cloud-first Accelerator program helps eliminate those inefficiencies and leads to a standardized approach to discovery that reduces costs and empowers our clients to manage their own discovery processes.Our unique partnership with Relativity enables us to leverage the unique and ever-evolving capabilities of RelativityOne, the leading cloud eDiscovery solution, to improve data integrity through a single instance (instead of multiple instances of Relativity or other eDiscovery solutions used by your providers), minimize the risk of exposure of your sensitive data, and contain discovery costs.
Managing numerous outsourcing vendors and providers can be a big, disjointed mess. PLUSnxt’s unique combination of people, process and technology enables you to take control over your own discovery process, leading to greater data integrity and consistency, more robust data security and – most importantly – significant cost containment! Check out how our team of experts recently addressed a unique challenge for a corporate client facing difficulties and inefficiencies in managing their collection of outsourced vendors and providers.
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