Legal Process Outsourcing services(LPO services)/ Legal services is a field in outsourcing that engages high value added services. Practice of a law firm obtaining legal support services from a third party service provider is referred as Legal outsourcing. If the outsourced unit is based in another country then, the practice is known as off shoring.
At first stage legal outsourcing involved only low-end works, for example: transcription. Later this was enlarged to focus task such as legal research, library services, pre-litigation document creation, consultation, application drafting, analysis, legal memorandum and so on.
Nowadays LPO has grown as a mainstream profession for offshore lawyers, attorneys and law firms. Legal outsourcing can be classified into two processes. They are the low skilled quantitative tasks or high end qualitative tasks.
Low skilled quantitative tasks include:
Business transcription
Document management
Litigation support
Data entry
Paralegal services and legal coding
Corporate secretarial services
Legal memorandum
High end qualitative tasks include:
Legal research
Document review and analysis and intelligence services.
Intellectual property rights (IPR)
Patent search and application drafting
Trade mark and copyright registration
Not only legal work is being outsourced to Indian LPOs, many western lawyers are also considering to move to India attracted by the job prospects.
ReplyDeleteAbhinav
SDD Global Solutions
High end legal outsourcing