Co-Counsel launches significant expansion of legal staffing and related services through five acquisitions.MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 1997-- Transactions More Than Double Co-Counsel's Network to 12 Offices and Continue Olsten Corporation's Strategic Expansion of Services Olsten Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :OLS OLS Ordinary Least Squares OLS Online Library System OLS Ottawa Linux Symposium OLS Operation Lifeline Sudan OLS Operational Linescan System OLS Online Service OLS Organizational Leadership and Supervision OLS On Line Support OLS Online System ) today announced a strategic expansion of its legal staffing business following recent acquisitions of five legal services legal services n. the work performed by a lawyer for a client. companies by its Co-Counsel, Inc. subsidiary, a preeminent provider of temporary and full-time attorneys and paralegals to law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services and increasing its annualized annualized Of or relating to a variable that has been mathematically converted to a yearly rate. Inflation and interest rates are generally annualized since it is on this basis that these two variables are ordinarily stated and compared. revenues to approximately $41 million. Following the acquisitions, Co-Counsel now has offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Ft. Lauderdale, Houston, 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. , Minneapolis, 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 , Newark, NJ, Orlando, FL, Tampa, FL, and Washington, DC. The recently acquired companies, all of whom will assume the Co-Counsel name, are as follows: - DC Legal Support, Inc. and Outside Counsel Inc. place contract attorneys on a temporary basis in law firms, corporations and trade associations in Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia and have now combined to become Co-Counsel's new office in the region. - Lit Support Services, L.P. in Dallas is a computerized litigation support company with clients in the southwestern United States that specializes in providing law firms and corporations with document management, retrieval and presentation capabilities through the use of document databases and image technology. Lit Support provides database design and document coding, document imaging to CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). , trial presentation technology and software training. Co-Counsel plans to extend these services throughout its national network. - Professional Staffing, Inc. is a Louisiana-based company whose Briggs Legal Staffing offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston and Tampa place paralegals, legal secretaries and legal support staff. - Southern Staffing, Inc. provides temporary and full-time legal staffing services, including administrators, law clerks, paralegals, litigation support, legal secretaries, word processors, receptionists, accountants/bookkeepers and file clerks in Fort Lauderdale, Orlando and Tampa. "Through these acquisitions, Co-Counsel has strengthened its position, both as a significant national provider of legal staffing and as the cornerstone of Olsten's legal services business," said Olsten Chairman and Chief Executive Frank N. Liguori. "We are also capitalizing on opportunities to bring these higher value- added services to our large and small corporate staffing clients as we enhance Olsten's position as a world leader in staffing services." "Our plan is to continue to build client loyalty in each market by providing a full range of staffing solutions," said Co- Counsel President Joseph Turano. Olsten Corporation, primarily through Olsten Staffing Services, operates 700 staffing or information technology offices in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , South America and Europe, providing assignment employees to business, industry and government, as well as services for the design, development and maintenance of information systems. The Company is also North America's largest provider of home health care and related services and, through its Olsten Health Services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract subsidiary, operates 600 health care offices in the United States and Canada providing health care network management and caregivers for home health care and institutions, as well as management services to hospital-based home health agencies. In 1995, Olsten Corporation employed 650,000 people, provided services to more than 500,000 client/patient accounts, and achieved systemwide sales of $3.3 billion and revenues of $2.8 billion. CONTACT: Olsten Corp., Melville David Fluhrer Vice President-Communications 516-844-7590 olstencomms@compuserve.com Anthony J. Puglisi Senior Vice President-Finance 516-844-7110 |
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