Harbor Acquires Legal Management Consulting Practice from Stout
October 17, 2023
Harbor has acquired the Legal Management Consulting practice from Stout to expand its advisory and managed-service capabilities in e-discovery, legal hold, data preservation, enterprise legal management (ELM) and contract lifecycle management (CLM). The former Stout team—recognized for advising corporate law departments and having served 125 Fortune 500 law departments—will enable Harbor to deliver expanded advisory and managed services to corporate legal departments and law firms.
- Buyers
- Harbor
- Targets
- Stout Legal Management Consulting practice
- Sellers
- Stout
- Industry
- Consulting
- Location
- Illinois, United States
- Transaction Type
- Divestiture
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