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Large Firms

Sep. 28, 2010

Firm Gets Flexible With In-House Temps

Fenwick & West has become the first traditional law firm to run its own temp agency for in-house legal departments. The service, called "FLEX by Fenwick," launched in July for existing Fenwick clients.

By Jill Redhage

Daily Journal Staff Writer

A year and a half ago, Ralph Pais, chair of Fenwick & West's technology transactions group, was contemplating a problem familiar to large law firms: As companies grow, they find it too expensive to ask firms like Fenwick to handle their day-to-day commercial transactions and instead direct that business to a multitude of lower-priced boutique firms and solo practitioners.

Until...

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