Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Nov. 8, 2014
Can you contract that work out?
Outsourcing can be an integral tool in an attorney's toolbox to provide efficient and cost effective legal representation to a client. But you need to do it ethically.
Stanley Mosk Courthouse
Wendy Chang
Judge
Los Angeles County Superior Court
Loyola Law School, 1995
Wendy is based in the firm's Los Angeles office. She is a member of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. She served as an advisor to the State Bar of California's Commission for the Revision of the Rules of Professional Conduct and is a past chair of the State Bar of California's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct. Wendy is a certified specialist in legal malpractice law by the State Bar of California's Board of Legal Specialization.
"Outsourcing" is the procurement of goods or services under contract with an outside supplier. In the legal world, outsourcing takes on many dimensions and is pervasive in modern legal practice. From large tasks such as the use of contract lawyers services for court appearances, document review, ghostwriting legal briefs or legal research services, to smaller tasks such as administrative, technical or legal support, the act of contracting out for certain functions traditionally included ...
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