Outsourcing and Offshoring for Attorneys: A 2009 Perspective

Arie Y. Lewin
Professor, Strategy and International Business
Director, Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER)
Duke University, Fuqua School of Business

Arie Y. Lewin is Professor of Strategy and International Business at Duke University, Fuqua School of Business and is Director of the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER). He is elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business and The Organization Management and Theory division of the Academy of Management awarded Professor Lewin the first Joanne Martin Trailblazer Award at the 2008 Annual Meeting. Professor Lewin is Visiting Research Professor at IESE (2005- 2008) and RSM Erasmus University (1998- ) where he is also ERIM Senior Fellow. He was Editor-in-Chief (2002- 2007) of Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS); founding Editor-in-Chief of Organization Science (1989-1998) and the convener of the acclaimed Organization Science Winter Conference (1994 -.). His research interests center on strategic renewal of organizations encompassing studies of adaptation and selection as co-evolutionary systems, emergence of new organizational forms and adaptive capabilities that distinguish between innovating and imitating organizations He is the lead PI for the multiyear international Offshoring Research Network (ORN) project which focuses on companies in transition to globalizing their organizations, business functions, processes and services by tracking firm strategies, experiences and future plans related to global delivery of all business functions and administrative and technical work. Current research focuses on the globalization of innovation.
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George Kimball
Partner
Baker & McKenzie LLP

Practice Focus
Information technology, outsourcing and technology transactions.

Practice Description
Mr. Kimball is a partner in the San Diego office and is a member of the Global IT, Outsourcing and Privacy Practice. Mr. Kimball advises clients in negotiation and re-negotiation of long term IT and business process outsourcing relationships, as well as other complex technology transactions. He has advised clients in transactions involving a wide variety of outsourced services in such industries as aerospace, banking chemicals, consumer products, energy, forest products, health care, hospitality, insurance, pharmaceutical, medical products and devices, semiconductors and retail, among others.

Publications, Presentations & Articles
Mr. Kimball regularly writes and speaks on outsourcing and related issues and legal developments to industry and trade organizations, as well as California Continuing Education for the Bar and New York’s Practising Law Institute. He is currently at work on a book about outsourcing agreements, to be published during 2009 by the Oxford University Press. Mr. Kimball is ranked by Legal 500, Chambers Global and Chambers USA as a recognized leader in outsourcing.

Professional Affiliations
Mr. Kimball is a member of the State Bar of California, the ABA and local bar associations. He is past chairman of the International Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association.

Education & Bar Admittance
Mr. Kimball received his legal education at the University of Michigan (J.D., cum laude, 1978), where he was a member of the law review and a winner of the moot court competition. He is also a graduate of the University of London and the University of California, Los Angeles. Mr. Kimball is admitted to practice in California, and a member of the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Pro Bono & Community Involvement
Mr. Kimball’s pro bono work has included inspections of living conditions and access to counsel at facilities for those detained by U.S. immigration authorities and representation of a shelter for battered women. He presently serves as pro bono chair for the San Diego office.

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Paul Mandell
President
Clutch Group

Paul Mandell is the President of Clutch Group, a global leader in legal process outsourcing. As president of the company, which has been ranked the top legal process outsourcing company in 2008 and 2009 by the Black Book of Outsourcing, Paul manages the delivery of traditional staffing services to law firms and corporate legal departments in the U.S. He also oversees the delivery of India-based document review, compliance, contract management, lease abstractions and legal research solutions to U.S. clients.

Prior to becoming president of Clutch Group, Paul practiced law at Arnold & Porter LLP and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in Washington, D.C., and New York, N.Y., where he focused primarily on antitrust and pharmaceutical litigation.

Paul is a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for International and Comparative Law, and he serves on the Yale Law School Alumni Fund Board, the University of Maryland Foundation Board of Trustees, and the Alumni Board of the University of Maryland College of Behavioral and Social Sciences. He is a frequent speaker on the topics of Legal Process Outsourcing and eDiscovery.

Paul is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Maryland, where he majored in government. He also holds a J.D. from the Yale Law School, where he served as a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal, and as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law & Policy Review.

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Outsourcing and Offshoring for Attorneys: A 2009 Perspective
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