Logan Ide’s Post

This article written by one of my colleagues may be of interest to some of my Big Law partner and firm management contacts. Quick background, Latitude works with large law firms in three ways: 🔹 Providing supplemental practice area-specific attorneys on a flexible contract basis to support the firm's needs. That could be 10 litigators or one ERISA attorney. For two months or a year. You get the picture. 🔹 Supporting a firm's secondment requests from their client. We can provide the attorney to do the secondment or one to backfill at the firm. 🔹 The third approach is just 'both of the above' in a more formal, programmatic way. Basically, supporting a law firm's "captive ALSP / flexible legal talent" program. For those not in the know, a "captive alternative legal services provider (ALSP)" means a subsidiary of the law firm that provides legal services to clients in other than the traditional way of assigning a partner & associates to work on discreet matters on an hourly or fixed cost basis. Typically, that means providing e-discovery services, other litigation support or flexible legal talent ("experienced contract attorneys"). So, the article is about the ins-and-outs, challenges and pitfalls of a firm standing up their own such operation - or partnering to do so - from the experience of Latitude that works directly with many corporate legal departments and many large and small law firms and has the benefit of 10 years of operations and significant scale, nationally. I'd be glad to answer any questions. Thanks, Andy and the marketing team for penning this piece.