As the ailing U.S. economy prompts companies to cut costs, it also has spawned legal fee cutbacks. Clients pressure law firms they hire to trim fees. That means more routine work like legal research, due diligence and document review is being done in India at roughly half the cost as in the U.S., outsourcers say. [...]
From: Aphelion Legal Solutions, August 19, 2008 The D.C. federal trial court and the D.C. and Maryland Bars have been asked whether anti-terrorist interception of communications between the U.S. and foreigners by the government ipso facto extinguishes the legal protection of every such conversation as confidential, privileged, or constitutionally private. The question is posed by [...]
From: The National Law Journal, October 15, 2008 While you might expect the production of a button-down shirt to be outsourced to Guadalajara, most lawyers would not expect their caseloads to be shipped overseas. Should lawyers worry about outsourcing? If you answer “yes,” you are probably a litigator dealing with electronic data discovery and the [...]
From: Law360, July 30, 2008 Companies that outsource their U.S. patent application drafting should keep U.S. export laws in mind, the USPTO said in a notice published in the Federal Register last week, a reminder that has reignited the debate over the potential risks and rewards of sending legal process work offshore. With the U.S. [...]
From: NDTV.com, July 17, 2008 Apart from the BPO and KPO sectors, which already have bases in western Rajasthan, it’s the turn of the Legal Process Outsourcing sector to head for the desert state. And that’s good news for the ITES industry, which has been hit hard by the recession-like conditions in the US. The [...]
From: India New England, July 16, 2008 At law firms in the United States, the billing rate for basic legal services like document review starts around $200 an hour and can appreciate significantly if the firm handling the work is located in a big city like New York or Washington, D.C. The cost to [...]
From: rediff.com, July 9, 2008 The US sub-prime crisis may have affected the fortunes of Indian IT firms, which have clients with mortgage exposure, but the country’s legal process outsourcing outfits are laughing their way to the bank as American law firms have begun offshoring the credit crisis-related work… Click here to read the [...]
From: Legal Blog Watch, July 7, 2008 Back in April, I noted that the practice of outsourcing legal work to India continues, notwithstanding concerns about ethics, attorney-client privilege and quality control. But can legal process outsourcing (LPO) companies retain enough lawyers to handle or supervise outsourced legal work? India’s national newspaper, The Hindu, is reporting that [...]
From: Reuters India, July 2, 2008 Legal process outsourcing is rapidly growing and is expected to become a $4 billion industry globally by 2015 with India occupying a significant chunk of it, industry players and analysts said. U.S. based Brown & Wilson Group Inc in its 2008 Black Book of Outsourcing has estimated the current [...]
From: law.com, January 23, 2008 Outsourcing legal work to India is no longer a novelty. It’s a reality. At least that is the message of legal process outsourcing (LPO) companies participating in their first major industry summit, held last week in New York. Buoyed by Forrester Research projections that $4 billion in legal [...]
