Two recent articles deal with issues of working with co-counsel and other service providers. Doug Richmond wrote Professional Responsibilities of Co-Counsel: Joint Venturers or Scorpions in a Bottle?, 98 Ky. L. J. 461 (2009-2010). Richmond, Professional Responsibilities of Co-Counsel
Molly Crane, a student at Georgetown, wrote Let’s Be Reasonable About It: Defining the Reasonable Inquiry in an Age of Disaggregation for the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, on the level of due diligence that should be expected in discovery in a era of disaggregated legal representations. (Disclaimer, I’m on the Board of Advisors for the GJLE and helped her with the paper.) Crane, Let's Be Reasonable About It
Finally, as I think I’ve previously discussed here, Mitt Regan and Palmer Heenan wrote a significant piece, Supply Chains and Porous Boundaries: The Disaggregation of Legal Services, and I wrote a risk management piece on the issue for Beazley's newsletter on the issue as well.