William Henderson of Indiana University praises Novus Law's ability to find patterns in mountains of material.

ECONOMIST: Outsourcing can cut your legal bills

Ray Bayley, the founder of Novus Law, another outsourcing firm, says that his industry is not just about paying lawyers less.

ECONOMIST: Outsourcing can cut your legal bills

However, as Geoffrey Dicks at Novus Capital markets pointed out recently, short-term, the correlation with the official data is pretty weak.

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It is also about doing the job more efficiently, for example when looking for needles of evidence in a haystack of documents: rather than relying on a single brilliant mind, Novus Law deploys teams of lawyers using technology and a process involving hundreds of small steps.

ECONOMIST: Outsourcing can cut your legal bills