In 2025, mass tort litigation is booming across the United States. From the ongoing Camp Lejeune water contamination lawsuits to new waves of litigation tied to drugs like Ozempic and consumer products like chemical hair relaxers, law firms are seeing unprecedented volumes of complex, multi-party claims. As a result, legal outsourcing has become not just a helpful support system but a mission-critical strategy for U.S. law firms handling mass torts.
This article explores how legal outsourcing accelerates mass tort case preparation, increases efficiency, reduces overhead, and ultimately improves outcomes for plaintiffs and law firms alike.
The Mass Tort Landscape in 2025
Mass torts involve large groups of plaintiffs alleging similar harm from a single product, drug, or event. Unlike class actions, mass tort cases are treated individually, even though they are consolidated for pre-trial proceedings. This means law firms must manage extensive documentation, plaintiff communication, medical record retrieval, expert coordination, and discovery efforts for each case.
In 2025, the top mass torts law firms are tackling include:
- Camp Lejeune Water Contamination
- Hair Relaxer Products Linked to Uterine Cancer
- Ozempic, Wegovy, and GLP-1 Agonists
- Talcum Powder and Ovarian Cancer
- AFFF Fire Fighting Foam Exposure
Each of these litigations involves high volumes of data, evolving science, and massive operational workloads—a perfect storm for legal outsourcing to step in.
Why Legal Outsourcing Is Essential for Mass Tort Case Prep
Legal outsourcing, also known as Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO), allows law firms to delegate time-consuming legal tasks to specialized offshore or onshore teams. These teams handle services such as:
- Medical record review and chronologies
- Plaintiff fact sheet processing
- Document review and coding
- Legal research and brief drafting
- Data entry and claim administration
By partnering with a trusted legal outsourcing provider, mass tort law firms can:
1. Scale Quickly with Qualified Talent
Mass torts require sudden and substantial staffing increases. Hiring full-time U.S.-based staff is costly and time-intensive. Legal outsourcing providers offer pre-trained legal professionals who can ramp up in days, not weeks.
Example: A law firm handling Camp Lejeune claims can outsource intake form processing to a 10-member offshore team, clearing backlog in half the time and at one-third the cost.
2. Accelerate Plaintiff Vetting
Outsourced teams can quickly review intake forms, verify eligibility based on exposure dates or product usage, and flag incomplete or high-value claims for further review. This speeds up the litigation timeline and ensures that valid claims move forward efficiently.
3. Enhance Medical Record Review
Mass torts often hinge on medical causation. Outsourced medical-legal specialists can build detailed chronologies, identify patterns, and summarize large medical files faster than in-house staff, freeing up attorneys to focus on strategy.
4. Reduce Overhead Without Sacrificing Quality
Legal outsourcing reduces reliance on expensive associates or paralegals for repetitive tasks. Most top LPOs follow strict quality assurance protocols and use HIPAA-compliant systems, ensuring data integrity and confidentiality.
5. Handle Discovery with Precision and Speed
With tens of thousands of documents to review during discovery, legal outsourcing is a game-changer. Teams trained in litigation platforms like Relativity or Everlaw can sort, tag, redact, and summarize discovery documents around the clock.
Technology + Outsourcing = A Winning Combination
In 2025, the best legal outsourcing partners are not just labor vendors—they’re tech-savvy collaborators. Combining AI-powered tools with outsourced human review means faster, more accurate case prep.
- AI tools identify relevant documents, flag inconsistencies, and even predict case outcomes.
- Outsourced teams verify, summarize, and provide context that AI alone can’t capture.
Result: Better decisions, shorter timelines, and reduced attorney burnout.
Case Study: AFFF Litigation Support
A mid-sized U.S. firm handling 2,000 AFFF (firefighting foam) exposure claims partnered with a legal outsourcing provider to manage medical records and discovery. Results within 6 months:
- 85% faster medical record turnaround
- 50% reduction in internal paralegal workload
- Increased capacity to take on 500+ additional clients
Ready to Streamline Your Mass Tort Workflow? Partner with Bolster Legal Today
If you’re a U.S. law firm navigating the ever-growing demands of mass tort litigation, you already know the pressure:
- Overwhelmed in-house teams struggling to manage thousands of plaintiff files
- Delays in medical record reviews slowing down case progress
- High costs of local staffing eating into your profits
- Missed opportunities to scale because your operations can’t keep up with demand
Bolster Legal is here to change that.
We specialize in legal outsourcing tailored for mass tort law firms, delivering high-volume, high-accuracy support that empowers your team to focus on what matters most—winning cases and serving clients.
- Experienced in world-wide mass tort litigation cases
- Fast, secure, and HIPAA-compliant medical record summaries
- Scalable + customizable teams trained in plaintiff vetting, discovery, and claim intake
- Adept in vast legal knowledge base
- Cost-effective solutions without compromising quality
Whether you’re handling 100 claims or 10,000, Bolster Legal gives you the manpower, process expertise, and litigation support to stay ahead of the curve.