Evan Granowitz: Globalization, outsourcing, and the legal sector

A civil litigator from Los Angeles-based law firm Wolf Group LA, Evan Granowitz is recognized as one of the rising stars in California’s law industry. This blog entry examines the Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) industry and the effects of globalization in the legal sector. 

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While the stubborn nature of the bad economy would have to take the blame for the economic predicaments in the legal sector, the other half of liability rests on the evolving nature of today’s most influential capitalist innovation—globalization. The legal sector, which has long been fraught with challenges over the economic meltdown, now adapts with the survival strategies of the global corporate world that engendered the Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO), a vibrant sub-sector of the Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) field. 

Tort lawyer Evan Granowitz was named a Southern California Rising Star in 2009 and 2010 by Super Lawyers magazine.

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KPO is changing the landscape of legal services and extending it to a wider domain that complements the principles of globalization—competitiveness and cheaper production costs. The legal sector at home grapples with this fact, while third-party firms abroad now handle loads of the clients’ legal documents that were usually commissioned and billed locally. 

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Today, the KPO industry just keeps on growing. To be able to compete, homegrown law firms either have to fold up, follow the trend, or introduce better legal work processes management. 

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