Litigation Support Services: How U.S. Law Firms Can Stop Overloading Their Attorneys
It’s eleven days before a production deadline, and a supplemental document request has just arrived. The review team is already stretched, so a senior associate starts making responsiveness calls herself. It happens more often than firms admit, and it is exactly the work litigation support services are meant to take off attorneys’ desks. What litigation support covers It is the work that keeps a case moving without needing an attorney’s signature: eDiscovery, document review and coding, research memos, and drafting support such as discovery responses, chronologies and deposition summaries. Signs your attorneys are overloaded The review queue grows faster than it shrinks, senior attorneys do first-pass review, one production date controls the whole calendar, and late nights before a production feel normal. That points to a recurring capacity problem, not a one-off surge. What to outsource and what to keep With a clear protocol and attorney oversight, a support team can handle firs...