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Law Practice

Apr. 13, 2004

Contract Attorneys Riding White Horses Save the Day

Column - Law Firm Management - By Werner S. Lewin Jr. - Law office use of part-time contract attorneys continues to expand. What began in the late 1980s as extremely limited engagements of outside attorney help, usually to perform basic legal research, discovery and other routine tasks, has risen to the level of hiring skilled contract attorneys for everything up to and including handling a case at trial.

Column

Law Firm Management

By Werner S. Lewin Jr.

        Law office use of part-time contract attorneys continues to expand. What began in the late 1980s as extremely limited engagements of outside attorney help, usually to perform basic legal research, discovery and other routine tasks, has risen to the level of hiring skilled contract a...

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