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Government solicitor wins outsourcing |
| Date Added: August 23, 2008 04:57:14 AM |
| Author: Fleming Parker |
| Category: Business: Business Services |
| THE Victorian Government Solicitors' Office has been given sweeping new responsibilities to administer outsourcing of legal services for the state government. The office will take responsibility for running the panel of 34 firms that last year earned almost $47 million from the government. As well as managing the panel of private firms, the office will continue to compete with those firms for government work. It will take responsibility for the panel arrangements after a difficult time for the state's women barristers. A report on legal outsourcing reveals that a surge in low-paid court work has contributed to a 31.2 per cent pay cut for women barristers working on cases for the government. Women barristers worked on 662 extra government cases last financial year but their total fees from government work fell $211,273 to $2.9 million. In some specialized areas, however, the office had the strongest performance among state government agencies in allocating high-value work to women barristers. http://www.outsourcingstrategies.com |
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