LinkUp Wednesday: By For And About Law Firms

"Obviously, improved profitability also will make a firm more competitive in tomorrow's search for new clients and new matters from current clients." Outsourcing is key and we can help"

Good Morning Folks,

The heartbeat of every organization is the mail center. FSO's founders launched a mailroom revolution over 30 years ago. We've been innovating mail service operations ever since.

Hundreds of AMLAW firms now with FSO were once some else's account. Their vendors failure  to deliver what they needed, to reduce costs and to improve productivity have made FSO the fastest growing on-site outsourcing company in the space.

The legal profession, always slow to adapt to change, finds itself in a new environment of increased competition, client-initiated pressure on expenses, rapid migration from paper to digital records and the relocation of back-office tasks out of city centers where space and labor savings go direct to the bottom line.

As Vincent Bell writes in the National Law Journal, "Law firms have learned that they must adapt to a new set of market rules to ensure that they will continue to grow. What most law firms have not done, but need to do, is systematically analyze their own internal financial procedures and workflows to identify changes that will improve the quality of their legal product and, at the same time, reduce their internal production costs. The changes can be difficult to execute but willgive firms an ongoing competitive advantage. Obviously, improved profitability also will make a firm more competitive in tomorrow's search for new clients and new matters from current clients." Outsourcing is key and we can help

Today, with a the general decline in paper-based communications, the focus on mail & print services is increasingly about leveraging the latest technology and multi-tasking to ensure maximum cost / value to reflect the rapidly changing communication strategy.

Enter FSO, whose owners have been leading support for the legal community for over 30 years. FSO offers a systematic and comprehensive approach to (re)IMAGINING all of a law firm’s operations to minimize costs, increase flexibility and expand in-house capabilities — while reducing risk and increasing compliance.

Following my signature below are links to a few articles that I've discovered that you can test your operation against to ensure your current vendor is doing everything possible to deliver the efficient support you need to grow vigorously into 21st Century 's Digital Practice of Law, and beyond.

If not, give us a look see. Today, FSO's subject matter experts and onsite staff provide support in many different areas of law firm and corporate legal department operations. The result is hundreds of the Top AMLAW firms have switched to FSO. We are a true administrative partner who is reshaping how business gets done.

Our mission in delivering our solutions is to always wow the end users, take care of the people, and put money back into the firm.  We guarantee it in every contract and we deliver on it.

Currently in a contract with your provider? Don't worry - we hear it all the time.

Let's start with a conversation.

Call me directly at 212.204.1193 and I will be glad to speak with you personally.

Have a GREAT day as I look forward to seeing all of you soon.

Love Life!

Mitchell D. Weiner
Chief Happiness Officer

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"Everything takes longer than you expect. Everything costs more than you originally plan. Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong. Of all the things that can go wrong, the worst possible thing will go wrong at the worst possible time and cost far more than you ever expected." Murphy's Law
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Wall Street's $100 Million Cost-Cutter and 9/11 Hero Brings Proven Formulas For Increasing Efficiencies, Reducing Expenses and Building Back-Office Bottom Lines

FSO attracts people with a great work ethic and an upbeat attitude 

"We are going to lead our industry in knowledge, operational expertise and best practices to deliver value, innovation, process improvement, technology and cost savings to all of our clients.”

From the newswire. Glad to have great talents expanding what's possible as a team. MW

To support or phenomenal growth in the onsite outsourcing industry, business transformation maverick FSO Outsourcing welcomed Russell C. Gambino to the family as Vice President of Business Transformation.

Mitch Weiner and Jim Caton have helped launch
services and technologies that have
changed economies and redefined how business is run.

In this newly developed role, Russell will work closely with Founder, Chief Happiness Officer and Owner, Mitchell D. Weiner, as well as President, Chief Chaos Officer and Owner, Jim Caton and VP of Corporate Strategy, Denise Ngeow, to apply his diverse and successful client side expertise and success to wring more costs out and drive more productivity in.

In addition, Russell will be responsible for developing, delivering and transforming best-in-class operational solutions, processes and services to FSO’s impressive list of clients.



According to the Wall Street Journal, "Big law firms saddled with pricey rents and high labor costs are increasingly hunting for savings in the back office."

"Embracing tactics their corporate clients adopted years ago, more firms are moving billing, human resources and other support functions to cheaper locations away from the nation's biggest cities. Others are stepping up use of outside contractors to perform work their own employees once did."

Russell is well-suited for the task with a proven history of improving revenues through increased efficiencies and reducing expenses by over $100 million.

Russell was a tremendous leader when serving the largest and most prestigious firms on Wall Street earning the most respect of all his peers. His vision enabled his employer to move forward after 9/11. 

The Vice President who managed Russell at the world headquarters of a global financial giant said, "Russ has an exceptional ability to assess a series of operational processes and quickly determine how to align them to create greater efficiencies. In his assessment he is also able to isolate and redefine weaknesses with minimal impact to the overall output. At the same time calculating the financial savings, gains or losses these changes can initiate."

“The growth and the next generation of FSO is dependent on great leaders and teams that excel in the knowledge of our industry to add value to all of our client sites,” Weiner adds. “Russell’s tenure, know-how and leadership skills will do just that – thus taking FSO to the next level of operational excellence.”



Russell is a senior executive with over 25-years of experience in all aspects of document lifecycle services (everything from mail, automation, digital mail, print solutions to IT solutions). The dedication he has shown after the 9/11 tragedy while employed on the client side, is a quality which separates Russell from other executives.  His ability to adapt, deal with conflict resolution and disaster recovery skills have helped to save over two thousand jobs.

Russell has helped build global organizations within the banking industry for both internal and outsourced solutions. He has a stellar reputation and is considered an expert in the financial services industry for delivering large scale cost saving initiatives, as well as applying business and financial analysis, forecasting, data analysis and business modeling to improving efficiencies and profitability of an organization. Russell is also on the Executive Board of the PCC in NYC. 



The addition of Russell’s position comes on the heels of the promotion of paper-to-digital conversion maestro, Bobby Dillon,to Best Practices Experience Director. 

Bobby a wealth of knowledge and expertise across all of FSO’s services from mail, logistics, copy, print and scan to document production – just to name a few. Most recently Bobby completed the largest and most successful document conversion in the New York market and surrounding areas - migrating over 35 million pages of paper to an electronic format. Bobby and his team achieved this by following rigorous checks and balances, quality control and process perfection. This is the type of success and model of perfection that Bobby will be leading across all of FSO’s client locations. 

Commenting on recent changes, co-founder Caton notes:

Chief Chaos Officer Jim Caton delivers proven recipe of
People, Passion and Productivity that just cannot be duplicated.

“It goes without saying that knowledge and subject matter expertise is core to our foundation, and it’s what we pride ourselves on as a business partner.” 

“We will continue to grow our teams and expand opportunities for all of our managers and leaders. We are going to lead our industry in knowledge, operational expertise and best practices to deliver value, innovation, process improvement, technology and cost savings to all of our clients.”

Mitchell D. Weiner
Chief Happiness Officer

Learn more about what DIFFERENTIATES FSO here