Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer, & Feld, L.L.P. Signs Business Process Co-Sourcing Agreement with Deloitte & Touche LLP.Business Editors TULSA, Okla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 2001 Deloitte & Touche Outsourcing, a service line within Deloitte & Touche LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , announced today that it signed an agreement with the prominent law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer, & Feld, L.L.P. to provide it with certain financial back-office services. These co-sourcing services are a part of Akin Gump's strategy to streamline its financial and technology back offices and provide maximum operating efficiency. Under the agreement, Deloitte & Touche Outsourcing will provide Akin Gump with an integrated, multi-process solution -- including replacing Akin Gump's existing financial, accounting, human resource, payroll, and benefit systems. Deloitte & Touche Outsourcing will help support these systems on an ongoing basis from its financial operations center The facility or location on an installation, base, or facility used by the commander to command, control, and coordinate all crisis activities. See also base defense operations center; command center. headquartered in Tulsa, Okla. Deloitte & Touche Outsourcing will provide services that include implementation and ongoing back-office accounting and IT services in support of such systems. Akin Gump will benefit from the facilities, management, technology, and processes that exist within Deloitte & Touche Outsourcing's financial operations center. Greg Arend, a national Deloitte & Touche Outsourcing Partner, stated, "We are thrilled to have Akin Gump's business and anticipate future offerings within the professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. field. I know that our exceptional services and our client dedication will benefit this prestigious, global law firm." Scott Wilson Scott Wilson may refer to: A person's name:
Jim Leary, Akin Gump's firmwide executive director, remarked, "Akin Gump recognized that it needed to completely upgrade its accounting function in a very short period of time in order to provide a strong financial platform to support the growth of the firm. After careful study, we recognized that the best way to make changes on such a large scale was by developing a co-sourcing relationship with Deloitte & Touche." About Deloitte & Touche Deloitte & Touche, one of the nation's leading professional services firms, provides assurance and advisory, tax, and management consulting Noun 1. management consulting - a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business service industry - an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects services through nearly 30,000 people in more than 100 U.S. cities. The firm is dedicated to helping its clients and its people excel. Known as an employer of choice for innovative human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. programs, Deloitte & Touche has been recognized as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work for in America" by Fortune magazine for four consecutive years. Deloitte & Touche is part of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Deloitte & Touche (also referred to as Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, and branded as Deloitte.) is the second largest professional services firm in the world, and one of the Big Four auditors, along with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young and KPMG. , one of the world's leading professional services firms, with more than 92,000 people in over 135 countries. For more information, please visit Deloitte & Touche's web site at www.us.deloitte.com. The Deloitte & Touche Outsourcing practice provides a variety of record keeping, account processing, data-management, information technology, management reporting, and business process review and reengineering services to clients in all market segments. For additional information about the Deloitte & Touche Outsourcing practice, please contact Sandra Little at 918/461-4726. About Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer, & Feld, L.L.P. Founded in 1945, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P., a leading international law firm, numbers more than 1,050 lawyers with offices in Austin, Brussels, Dallas, Denver, Houston, London, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Moscow, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Northern Virginia, Philadelphia, Riyadh (affiliate), San Antonio and Washington. Akin Gump (www.akingump.com) is the 8th largest U.S. law firm and the 16th largest internationally. The firm has a diversified practice and represents regional, national and international clients in a wide range of areas, including antitrust; banking and financial institutions; financial restructuring; capital markets; communications; corporate and securities; employee benefits; energy; entertainment; environmental; estate planning Estate Planning The overall planning of a person's wealth, including the preparation of a will and the planning of taxes after the individual's death. Notes: Contrary to popular belief, estate planning involves much more than preparing a will, and it is not only for the , wealth transfer and probate; government contracts; health; insurance; intellectual property; international; investment management; labor and employment; litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. ; mergers and acquisitions; privatization privatization: see nationalization. privatization Transfer of government services or assets to the private sector. State-owned assets may be sold to private owners, or statutory restrictions on competition between privately and publicly owned ; project finance; public law and policy; real estate and finance; taxation; and technology. |
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