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Outsourcing Legal Research

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Large law firms and in house legal departments of large enterprises have enjoyed the benefits of outsourcing (quicker turnaround and lower costs) with success for quite some time in the United States.

On the other hand, small and midsize enterprises and law firms have just begun to outsource legal work to enjoy these benefits. This has become possible with a wider availability of technology at a lower cost, in addition to the arrival of a new breed of vendors who are addressing the unique requirements of small and midsized enterprises and law firms.

These vendors are providing services with better quality, by leveraging on technology and through deployment of experts in the work which is outsourced. Lawyers from India are increasingly familiar with US law and have several years of experience in doing legal work for US law firms and in house legal departments of large corporations. It has become possible to deploy experts these days due to aggregation of work from various clients, and the cascading higher volume of work.

The law firms and in house legal departments have enjoyed the benefits of a quicker turnaround time. The work left with the Indian entity at the end of their day is completed and available when they arrive at work the next day. These have become as important as the other core reason for outsourcing, namely saving of costs of law firms and enterprises have been able to save between 50 -60% of their cost by outsourcing legal services.

What work can be outsourced?

Any work that can be done without requiring fact to face interaction with clients or physical presence in a court of law can be outsourced. Some of the typical examples of work outsourced are in:

a)Contracts: Drafting, Review and management
b)Litigation Support : Discovery management, review, analysis and coding and Presentation
c)IP Rights: Search, Application for patents and defence
d)Legal and Business research

a)Contracts of Drafting, Review and Management

We prepare first-cut drafts of contracts that are fit for purpose and conform to your house style. You need to provide:
.Standard templates that conform to your house style and
.Unique variables relating to each contract

Your lawyers would still be in control over the quality of the draft and enforceability in courts of law without having to log expensive time in preparing the first cut draft.

We can handle a wide variety of contracts including contracts for:
.Sale of securities and derivatives
.Sale of goods or services
.Sale or mortgage of property
.Lease of property
.Lease of equipments
.Employment etc

We manage your contracts by maintaining a comprehensive database of all your contracts that provide:
.Contract information (Purpose, Period, Entities, Addresses, Counsel, Validity, Termination rights, Applicable law, Jurisdiction etc
.Summary of terms
.History of notices

We maintain a summary of all obligations and covenants (to facilitate compliance) and all rights (to enforce compliance)

b)Litigation Support

Our litigation support services include:
.Discovery management,
.Review
.Analysis and coding and
.Presentation

To help your lawyers focus on successfully winning or defending cases.

We help your lawyers to stay focused on winning the case by providing discovery management support.
Our services include:
.Understanding case issues and priorities
.Determination of collecting strategy
.Determination of work processes to speed up and yet not miss out on collecting documents
.Quick focus on most useful documents by continuous elimination of irrelevant items
.Quick analysis of documents for materiality, relevance, confidentiality and privilege; rapid automated
codification and validation
.Quick production of documents to facilitate rapid internalization and access

We can work with your proprietary document discovery management system or any standard off-the-shelf solution including ConcordanceFYI and CaseLogistix.

In spite of increasing popularity of e-discovery, physical paperwork has continued to stay. We help your lawyers by reviewing physical paper documents and codifying them for rapid prioritization and access.

We measure our success by reducing your attorneys document review time and cost. Not just by being more competitive than other providers in discovery process.

c)IP Rights

Our lawyers (supported by domain professionals) can support you in
.Prior Art Search,
.Assessment of patentability,
.Patent proofing,
.Invention disclosure evaluation and
.Drafting the application for patents.

We offer support in IP Asset management with review of potential or existing infringements and in litigations to protect against such infringements.

d)Legal and Business Research

We conduct research on industry standard private databases as well as public domain databases to provide research support to your team of lawyers to win/defend litigation or to provide counsel to clients on complex issues.
Our research support includes:
.Reviewing legislation
.Reviewing case law precedence
.Reviewing journals
.Reviewing contracts and
.Preparing summaries and abstracts.

Where to outsource?
Law firms and in house legal departments typically outsource legal work to someone who is willing to understand their requirements, and give quality service that they require.

TaurusQuest is one such company, which has acquired expertise in serving small and midsize enterprises better, and has been recognized for its operational excellence and delighting service. We were awarded 4th worldwide by the US based Black Book of Outsourcing for one of our services in 2007. We have a number of legal professionals who have experience in providing the services mentioned above to US and International law firms and to business enterprises. The senior executives of the company have lived and worked in the US.TaurusQuest has two delivery centers in Chennai, India with 300 seats.

Top Law College In India – Jeen Institute Of Law Behror Rajasthan India

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There are many professional colleges in India where students opt for. Now days BCA, MCA, BBA MBA, medical and engineering are very common lines in which student want to go. The most interesting stream for which students are opting these days is Law and they are searching for law College in India.
Law College is in excessive rate in India for which student can go. Here are the lists of few law colleges in Delhi which are offering Legal Education including Civil Law, Criminal Law, Business Law, Forensic Law etc. and courses which are Bachelor of Law (BL), Master of Law (ML) etc.
1.Faculty of Law – Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi
2.Amity Law School, Delhi
3.Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, Delhi
4.Campus Law Centre – University of Delhi, Delhi
5.Law Centre NO – I, Delhi University Campus, Delhi
6.Law Centre NO – II, ARSD College, Delhi
In India there are many law institutes but very few are advised. The law institutes are the places where students are given graduate in law .law is in different branches like criminal law study, HR in human law and many more.
Faculty of law is the best law college in India which is located as Delhi university law school. In many law colleges admissions are based on the merit marks that are the cut offs but in few there is special entrance exam which are held then few consoling sections are organized for students and then are finally selected for the law education. There are many best law institutes in india where student can take admission for law education and those are listed below:-
1.NLSIU,Banglore
2.NALSAR,Hydrabad
3.Symbiosis law college,pune
4.ILS law college
5.Faculty of law,BHU
6.Faculty of law,DU
and many more.
The law institutes in india directory provides wider information on the very leading law institutes of India. Now you can View detailed information on various courses of your choice offered by these institutes, fee structure, duration of course and admission procedure at the popular law institutes of India on various sites also. Just by accessing the websites of leading law institutes in India providing diplomas and degrees level education in the field of law in India on popular courses such as LLB (3yr), LLM (2yr), B.A (3yr).you can also view their contact information of these institutes and get online admission in to these popular courses by felling up there forms online or by going to the college.
In some law colleges the LLB Corse is of 3years where as in some the LLB cores are of 5years. The 3year cores is consist of only the law section the students who are graduate can get admission where as in LLB of 5 years the students who have passed there academics that is the XIIth can take admission. 5 year law divided into two section the graduation + law. There are few institutes and colleges too where the graduation took place for 1year and provide diploma in several fields in law just like the certifications.In some law colleges the LLB Corse is of 3years where as in some the LLB cores are of 5years. The 3year cores is consist of only the law section the students who are graduate can get admission where as in LLB of 5 years the students who have passed there academics that is the XIIth can take admission.

Legal Process Outsourcing Pros And Cons

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If you own a law firm or you are an in-house counsel looking forward to outsource legal process locally or globally, basic knowledge regarding the merits and demerits of legal process outsourcing service will be of great help for you. There are various that need to be considered and negotiated before flagging off any contract with a Legal proves outsourcing company. It will help you to maintain a good rapport and working relationship with the legal process outsourcing offering company. Initiate your outsourcing process by doing an evaluation of all your works. It will enable you to decide the type of work that you wish to outsource. After deciding the type of work, its time to questions that you must ask from your vendor. Some of the basic questions are as follows:

What will be the cost for legal process outsourcing services?

How well the LPO providing company will be able to meet our needs?

Why should that particular LPO Company be hired?

In case of legal process outsourcing Company you should be able to deal directly with that company. Besides direct communication medium, it must comply with all the obligations and privacy or confidentiality issues of the client. A standard set of benchmarks and metrics must be followed to measure the overall success or failure of the services provided by the company.

The advent of legal process outsourcing in India started as legal support services but in very less time duration, this sector has witnessed a phenomenal success and popularity. Always focus on how much profit can you make by legal process outsourcing. Calculate how much you can save along with all the mandatory tax advantages. Pay attention to the quality of the service offered by LPO Company. Properly analyze the associated risk factors and risk allocation framework to develop a strategy to control the risks. One of such risk can be linguistic or cultural differences that can cause obstacles in day to day operations of your business.

In case things run bad in your LPO relationship. One of the important prerequisite for LPO services is to have knowledge of the laws of the country of the LPO Company. It will help you to easily resolve the disputes that might creep in during later stages. So be ready and prepared to protect customer and company information.

Legal Process Outsourcing’s Point Of Inflection

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Depending on what you are reading and who you are talking to it can be unclear whether or not legal process outsourcing is making true headway in the legal industry. A report on some sites surfaced this week which discuss apparent reluctance to sending even simpler legal tasks offshore. The Lawyer reported how Integreons operations both in Fargo and in Bristol was cost prohibitive to the firms operations since clients do not prefer the LPO to send any work overseas. Its quite interesting that the LPOs clients, who give their business to Integreon, want the provider to perform work onshore rather than reap benefits of the lower cost offshore model which they signed on to profit from in the first place. Is this a trend in legal process outsourcing which has been largely synonymous with transmitting work overseas to the lower cost centers in India, Philippines and beyond? Or rather, does this story reflect the eve of an inflection point that will breed LPO differentiation to new service delivery models moving forward?

The reason for the differentiation question lies in the case seen in the Integreon story. Providers will adjust and offer service as dictated by their clients when it makes sense. Its a fact of doing business. Otherwise turning your back on clients doesnt bode well for your future business, and in turn helps your competitors who adjust and offer accordingly. But does this story actually make sense – to essentially abandon the offshore model which is the foundation for the cost savings and is at the heart of the law firm attraction to LPO?

Onshore arms do make sense to the LPO model if the delivery model finds a way for it to make it economically viable. Paying up to 90% of revenues to onshore salaries does not, but it could if fees could be raised to justify the overall service being provided. Or perhaps volumes will allow them to achieve economies of scale thus pushing them into the black. But this does call for another look at the overall legal outsourcing value proposition.

Cost savings, increased productivity, access to back office capacity – and the list could go on – but these are some of the driving forces behind the value of legal process outsourcing. However were witnessing a transformative period for the industry if the offshore reluctance holds true. It will, if it hasnt already, cause legal process outsourcing providers to ask themselves how they continue driving their operations and maintain the value to the client. The answer will lie based on their internal capabilities, their ability to react, and most importantly their innovative view of the service model. The winning model will achieve greater inroads in improving the central word of the industry name; Process. The industry as a whole must improve the process in which it interacts with clients and delivers their work products.

No matter the industry, business process exists in one way or another, and it in fact is almost always enhanced through the implementation o f technological solutions that make life easier for all those involved. It requires studying the end-to-end process between client and provider, and determining the areas of pain and opportunity to marry up with new tools, perhaps not yet envisioned. The fact is that technology has undoubtedly facilitated the LPO industry, but this inflection point is calling for a push to the boundaries of what technology will do for LPOs maturity in the face of client demands for onshore support. More mature, cutting edge platforms coupled with some level of onshore support must contribute to the value proposition and offer a complementary service to the overall offering of the provider.

If pieced together properly, the suite of services that the LPO provides may in fact dictate higher fees through the realization of increased service value. Or it may just at least maintain legal process outsourcings cost competitive edge. Either way it will create a factor of differentiation between pure play LPO providers who compete solely on cost, and those providers who seek to stand apart from the pack and offer an innovative approach to legal outsourcing.

Legal Offshoring India’s Pie!

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In this highly competitive global market every corporation requires to work on minimal margins and they required adopting cost cutting measures and that is where outsourcing became imperative.

Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) is the third big Leap of outsourcing industry in India, after Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) & Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO). LPO is an activity or practice to get legal support services from legal services firms or corporations.

In the beginning, LPO covered mostly low-end transcription work (Data management, Word Processing, Litigation support, Book-keeping and reconciliations etc.) but now LPO also includes a huge range of high end legal processes such as patent application drafting, legal research, pre-litigation documentation, advising clients, writing software licensing agreements and drafting distribution agreements.

The total market size of Global LPO business is around USD 250 billion. And out of this US alone captures two third of LPO business. The growing cost of Legal services in USA leads it to outsource or offshore the legal activity. It was very necessary for US law firms to obtain the Legal support services from outside to either save their business by cost cutting or for profit making.

There are a lot of examples of US law firms that were running their business successfully & were well known in their field but due to increasing cost in legal services they could not survive. And these failure firms proved to be a good learning example for rest of the firms or corporations and it became imperative for US law firms to outsource the legal support services.

India had already proved its reliability with its IT BPO & KPO services, so it emerged as a favorable destination for LPO business. The first legal outsourcing to India started back in 1995, when Bickel & Brewer the Dallas based litigation firm, with 34 lawyers opened an office in Hyderabad.

The next thing that gave an impetus to the industry was when General Electric, in 2001, added a legal division to their currently existing base of operations in India. This legal cell was specifically started to handle legal compliance and research for GE plastics and GE consumer finance (Divisions of GE capital). Thereafter, the industry witnessed a steady upswing in demand for outsourced legal services from India. And then the foreign players started coming in India.

This gave an opportunity to the Indian lawyers & students wanting to go abroad or want to earn hefty amount get good opportunity to work with legal outsourcing firms.

In India most of the Legal Process Outsourcing business revolves around three major activities.

Legal transcription and drafting services: Law firms have extensive documentation requirements, which normally get outsourced to India. This involves data entry or activities like sending correspondence, document management and indexing, drafting memos etc. This is the entry level, low value high volume task. Owing to low risks, this sometimes tops the priority lists for firms starting outsourcing.

Patent prosecution assistance: This is the hottest area in Legal Processes Outsourcing. It involves assistance in filing patent applications, infringement studies, IP asset management services, prior art searches etc.

Legal research: It involves performing legislative history research, jurisdiction studies and other typical case study researches that are common with the legal profession. When dea ing with corporate activities, like mergers and acquisitions legal due diligence of the potential targets or acquirers and their accompanying legal issues becomes imperative. This involves extensive data research etc and hence a lucrative outsourcing task.