| Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) is a field in | | | | Patent search and application drafting |
| outsourcing that involves high value added services. | | | | Trade mark and copyright registration |
| Practice of a law firm obtaining legal support services | | | | Legal research |
| from a third party service provider is referred as Legal | | | | Document review and analysis and intelligence |
| outsourcing. If the outsourced unit is based in another | | | | services. |
| country then, the practice is known as off shoring. | | | | Outsourcing legal work helps to save up to 50% or |
| At initial stage legal outsourcing involved only low-end | | | | more. |
| works, for eg: transcription. Later this was expanded to | | | | As The New York Times reported: "The reason for |
| specialized task such as legal research, library | | | | the shift [to outsourcing legal work] echoes the reason |
| services, pre-litigation document creation, consultation, | | | | companies are sending other work abroad: they save |
| application drafting, analysis, and so on. Now LPO has | | | | substantial amounts of money. Some companies say |
| grown as a mainstream profession for offshore | | | | they can reduce certain legal costs by as much as 50 |
| lawyers, attorneys and law firms. | | | | percent, and receive work that rivals what they can |
| Legal outsourcing can be classified into two processes. | | | | obtain in the United States. According to Dennis |
| They are low skilled quantitative tasks or high end | | | | Archer, the President of the American Bar Association, |
| qualitative tasks. | | | | ‘The need to cut costs reaches across many |
| Low skilled quantitative tasks include the following: | | | | departments, so it should be no surprise that it goes to |
| Paralegal services and legal coding | | | | the legal department as well.’" |
| Corporate secretarial services | | | | Law firms across the world can significantly gain from |
| Legal memo development | | | | offshoring legal services to India. |
| Transcription | | | | Besides savings, these legal services will also provide |
| Document management | | | | a gateway to well experienced legal experts in India. |
| Litigation support | | | | Article by Remya.K.K |
| Data entry | | | | SBL BPO Services |
| High end qualitative tasks include the following: | | | | Regards, |
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