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Nov
2009
What is Legal Process Outsourcing?
LPO takes its course from KPO (Knowledge Process Outsourcing). KPO refers to knowledge process outsourcing and which invariably includes, valuation research, investment research, patent filing and legal and insurance claim analysis.
Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) is the means where a law firm or corporation (usually located in US and Europe) hire the services of an offshore legal support services company. LPO has shown phenomenal progress in recent times and the countries like Philippines and India have served as the breeding grounds for providing legal processing of document review, legal research and writing, drafting of pleadings and briefs, and patents by legal experts.
LPO is also seen as a prominent cost saving measure for the law firms in US, UK and Europe. Off shoring legal processes to the countries like India, has also generated employment for the intellectuals in the law sector. Taking the case of Indian sub-continent, it offers vast potential for legal processing. With prominent and reputed law schools, there is no dearth of legal professionals. In addition, the legal system in India has taken from British Common Law and American Law.
However, statistics show that at present Indian lawyers are not qualified to give legal advice in US or European courts, but are adept enough to handle para –legal services.
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3 comments
knowledge process outsourcing wrote:
May 18th, 2010Thank you very much to share this information. It is very useful and informative.
KPO Services wrote:
May 27th, 2010Well said! I’m totally with you on this topic. LPO provide high profit margins for services providers and high cost savings for clients/companies as economic benefits. LPO has changed the perception of the global legal industry, which once thought legal services as too sensitive to be outsourced.
Josh
admin wrote:
July 3rd, 2010Thank for you wonderful comment! I would be happy to assist you if you do have any queries regarding LPO’s.