ACT Litigation Services Lauds American Bar Association’s Opinion on Outsourcing

ACT Litigation Services, Inc., a arch provider of agenda certificate management, cyberbanking analysis and certificate analysis for accumulated acknowledged departments and law firms, commends the American Bar Association and its Standing board on Ethics and Professional Responsibility for its contempo Formal Opinion 08-451, blue-blooded “Lawyer’s Obligations When Outsourcing Legal and Nonlegal Support Services.” The opinion, issued on August 25, 2008, concludes that U.S. attorneys are chargeless to outsource acknowledged plan to attorneys or nonlawyers in or alfresco of the country and lays out some ethical arena rules for accomplishing so.

According to the opinion, “a advocate may outsource acknowledged or nonlegal abutment casework provided the advocate charcoal ultimately amenable for apprehension competent acknowledged casework to the client,” as continued as:
•The advocate makes reasonable efforts to accomplish abiding the conduct of those to whom tasks are outsourced is accumbent with his or her own able obligations and the advocate retains “direct authoritative authority.”
•The advocate discloses to and receives accord from the client.
•The fees answerable have to be reasonable and contrarily in acquiescence with the obligations beneath Rule 1.5 administering the use of arrangement attorneys, and
•The advocate have to abstain acceptable the crooked convenance of law.

ACT’s certificate analysis offerings accept auspiciously developed utilizing the attempt of the ABA’s assessment from day one. “Our analysis teams are managed by experienced, U.S. accountant attorneys who plan carefully with anniversary client’s admonition to instruct, administer and accredit anniversary analysis project,” said Jeff Samples, Director of Client Services at ACT. “Our analysis action is advised to absorb the applicant in all aspects of the analysis thereby ensuring absolute authoritative ascendancy and ascendancy charcoal with the applicant and their alfresco counsel.” Close advice and aggregate supervision, alternating with ACT’s fee model, which caps costs at a anticipated per-page rate, has fabricated ACT a baton in the acreage of certificate review.

More information, including a hotlink to the assessment itself, is at http://www.abanet.org/abanet/media/release/news_release.cfm?releaseid=435.

About ACT Litigation Services, Inc.
Established in 1986, ACT Litigation Services (ACT) provides agenda certificate management, cyberbanking analysis and action administration consulting to audience from the country's better law firms and corporations. A clandestine aggregation based abreast Los Angeles, California, ACT was founded by engineers to action a abysmal compassionate of technology and action ascendancy in managing top profile, circuitous litigation. The aggregation offers a abounding ambit of discovery-related services, including consultation, collection, conversion, hosting and production, as able-bodied as metrics-driven certificate review. For added advice about ACT, alarm (661) 284-6401 ext. 222 or appointment www.actlit.com.

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Craig Lee
ACT Litigation Services, Inc.
Tel.: 661.284.6401, ext. 222
E-mail: clee@actlit.com