| Clacking typewriters, over worked owl-eyed stenos, | | | | themselves to the constantly evolving, competitive, |
| mountains of briefs, and erratic juniors...the hallmarks of | | | | economic scenario, they would have to develop |
| yester-year law firms. Enter the new millennium, and | | | | strategies that would balance not only their deadlines |
| law firms were sleek, new age hubs of strenuous legal | | | | but also provide efficient support systems. |
| activity, ranging from tedious to investigative to | | | | This brought about the evolution of Legal Process |
| groundbreaking. Gradually, as world economy | | | | Outsourcing industry, where law firms obtained legal |
| harmonized as one, and the global business community | | | | support services from key service providers, who |
| started outsourcing its key, albeit repetitive processes | | | | were located halfway across the globe. Initially legal |
| to reduce costs, time, effort, and manpower, the legal | | | | outsourcing involved low-end work like transcription. But |
| world developed too. | | | | soon the outsourcing pattern evolved to such |
| Present day economics is governed by technological | | | | specialized tasks as legal research, library services, |
| growth where advanced communication systems rule | | | | pre-litigation document creation, consultation, application |
| the roost. Information technology has shrunk time and | | | | drafting, analysis, and so on. In the current scenario, |
| distance to such an extent that geographical | | | | approximately 80 per cent of companies, federal |
| boundaries are mere contours instead of dividers. | | | | agencies, and leading law firms, opt for legal process |
| Following in the wake of the financial world, the legal | | | | outsourcing to reduce high operational costs and |
| firms across the globe realized that to adapt | | | | improve efficiencies. |