So many cottage industries thrive on law departments! A village!
As Rees Morrison points out, there's a whole cottage industry of niche legal services that are making a living off law departments. Here's the list compiled by Rees Morrison:
- ADR (alternative dispute resolution)
- Auditors of legal bills
- Class action claims
- Consultants on law department management
- Consultants on compliance, corporate governance, and ethics
- Corporate governance groups
- Corporate secretary services and software
- Corporate secretary portals
- Court reporters
- Decision analysts
- Document assembly
- Document discovery
- E-billing vendors
- Economic analysis experts
- Electronic discovery
- Ethics line third parties
- Expert witness sites online
- Legal and compliance training online
- Legal research
- Litigation and trial consultants
- Matter management systems
- Medical/nurse analysts
- Offshore providers
- Online selection of law firms
- Part-time general counsel
- Search firms
- Settlement and ADR capabilities online
- Settlement counsel
- Writing instructors