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27

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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