What is Legal Process Outsourcing?

Simply, Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) refers to the practice of obtaining legal support services from an outside law firm or legal support service company. To clarify terminology, outsourcing refers to using any third party to provide services previously provided by full-time employees; offshoring refers to outsourcing to a non-domestic provider. As early as 2005, the trend by US and UK law firms and law departments to offshore legal work began to grow. The following list of services generally obtained through LPO include: document drafting by lawyers, legal research, IP legal work, substantive or administrative, review of discovery documents, paralegal services, and administrative and secretarial support services.

The LPO Boom!

Recently, we noticed that the financial hubs of India i.e. Gurgaon, Chandigarh, and Bangalore were prospering due to an increased amount of litigation and bankruptcies, a result of the recent global financial crisis. Since the Indian Constitution combined the best elements of the British theory of Parliamentary Sovereignty with the American Theory of Judicial Supremacy, it is relatively easy for these two powerful economies to outsource their legal process to India due to similarities in each country’s constitution. As such, Janakraj & Associates will begin offering LPO services beginning as soon as 2012. For a comprehensive overview the services we will offer, please CLICK HERE.

Contact Us to Discuss:

• • Structuring and Negotiating a Best Practices LPO Agreement ›››
• • Assessing LPO’s role in your organization’s current business model ›››
• • How to successfully structure and manage Offshore Document Review Projects ›››
• • Measuring ROI of the outsourced processes ›››
• • Examining the how to introduce LPO in your organization ›››
• • Negotiating and managing outsourcing relationships ›››
• • Improving Contract Management Efficiency Working with LPO Firms ›››
• • Examining issues regarding both Captive and Non-captive outsourcing ›››