On Wednesday, Am Law 100 firm Winston & Strawn introduced Winston Legal Solutions, a new lower-cost, right-staffing model to assist with low-complexity and routine tasks that are part of its transactional, litigation and regulatory legal services offerings. The new venture encompasses the firm’s existing e-discovery, managed review, information governance and trial support capabilities, according to the press release. Winston Legal Solutions will be available to all clients across all practices going forward.
In speaking with Legaltech News, John Rosenthal, chair of Winston’s eDiscovery & Information Governance Practice, noted that law firm clients have become sophisticated purchasers of legal services in recent years, and are ahead of law firms when it comes to their staffing and roles. Clients and the broader legal services market have been pushing the concept of right-staffing into the law firm space, which is largely still stuck in a “paralegal-associate-partner” model, he said.
