Law firms are now large and complicated businesses. In order to increase their revenues they now merge, spend money on marketing, pay serious attention to policies, and spread their branches to different places, even abroad.
They, however , are more concerned with increasing their income rather than controlling expenses.
They have started outsourcing back-office functions like mailroom, copy center and payroll, but most importantly in IT. Managing software and systems upgrades, and network operations, are outsourced to a great degree. Law practice itself is also outsourced.
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