Deloitte Augments Legal Business Services With New Contracts Team

Deloitte’s year-old campaign to boost its U.S. legal business services revenue is being spurred by a new addition of contracts management consultants, the Big Four accounting giant announced Monday.

Deloitte recently added Teju Deshpande and a team from her consultancy, Oya Solutions. The move caps a year of “dramatic growth” for Deloitte’s Legal Business Services practice, which works with in-house legal departments as they look to streamline functions that track client contracts, invoices, and eDiscovery, according to a Deloitte statement.

Deshpande is now a Chicago-based Deloitte principal in a unit that, when it was announced in 2020, was described by ...