With ALSPs, your law firm can quickly build and test new practice areas, leverage expensive technology, and provide new services to your clients, in a shorter period of time, with a lower up-front investment, and with less risk to your organization than if you tried to achieve this in-house.

Reduce your law firm’s fixed costs and scale up with resources only as-needed. In this VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) world, being able to pivot quickly is critical.

Enter new markets with multi-lingual support around the globe.

Why buy software, invest in training your team and navigating those change management hurdles, and deal with onerous updates, when you can benefit from working with service providers who have the technology and know-how to use it from the day you engage them?

Is there a function within your law firm that is not upskilling with the times or that is phasing out in the industry but cannot easily be replaced in the interim? Are you having difficulty finding local talent? Do you need to access specialized expertise for a project or a short period of time?

Firms locked into office leases? Grow your headcount and resources virtually through ALSPs and benefit from reduced per capita expenses.

Where is the team overwhelmed? Is there an industry or practice area in which your firm is trying to grow?

High volume, low margin work (low margin PRIOR to using ALSPs, to be clear)

Where are clients placing price pressure on law firms? Where are firms competing on price? ALSPs can perform a portion of work at a lower cost while law firms can save time and supervise that work for a fee. The end result? Clients can see a lower price overall while the law firm makes a profit and frees up its internal capacity to perform higher-value work.

Have work that needs to be turned around on a tight deadline? Many ALSPs offer 24/7 support.

Many ALSPs have certain processes down pat and, combined with their knowledge and project management capabilities, they produce high-quality work at a good value.

When clients can see that you are right-sizing work by pushing it down to lower-cost, effective resources, they appreciate it. Your law firm's value proposition can be a true differentiator these days.

Many law firms (of all sizes) and their clients already rely on ALSPs. Many firms have even created their own ALSPs. The line between traditional law firms and ALSPs is beginning to blur. Would you rather try to beat them or join them? Either way, it is important to understand ALSPs. Work with them. Learn from them. See what your firm is up against.