Legal BPO
Litigation today is increasingly complex. Cases take longer, involve more people, require more information and demand faster access to information. Controlling costs while staying responsive to clients, the court, and opposing counsel, is a constant challenge. How can you manage the litigation life cycle to be effective and efficient?
From litigation support to information management tools to electronic and print document management services, our comprehensive and integrated suite of services and advanced technology adapts to your needs throughout the litigation process. Outsourcing routine activities in the litigation life cycle is a proven method for increasing internal efficiencies and reducing cost.
Litigation Outsource can provide comprehensive litigation management solutions that are both efficient and cost effective to meet the needs of lawyers undertaking litigation in all jurisdictions.
Litigation Outsource provides full-service support to attorneys, paralegals and end users involved in litigation or legal disputes of any nature.
The litigation life cycle is demanding. From filing the initial complaint to completing the trial, legal teams are inundated with details and repetitive tasks that can deplete operational efficiency as cases stretch from months to years. Litigation Outsource provide a single source for electronic data discovery, out-of-court depositions, high-volume digital document reproduction and delivery, and in-trial presentation solutions for presentations across the United States and United Kingdom.
Our Services in Legal BPO
Currently, legal services offshoring from India generates $61 million in revenues; this is expected to grow nearly 10 times to reach $605 million by 2010 and cross $I billion by 2015.
Apart from the lure of huge cost savings, the Indian legal offshoring growth is being driven primarily by the availability of law graduates in a country where the legal system is similar to those in major English speaking countries like the US and UK. More recently, however, pressure on law firms to reduce costs has led to the outsourcing of paralegal tasks and the emergence of what is now known as Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) as accepted practice.
The range of legal processes that have been effectively outsourced by large law firms in the US and UK include legal transcription, database creation and maintenance, scanning and indexing evidence, document coding, document review and annotation, document processing and management, creation of forms and precedents, document drafting, legal research and patent drafting. The majority of outsourced work is in the areas of complex litigation, mergers and acquisitions, insolvency, patents and compliance.
Litigation Outsource are experienced in the application of court practice notes to civil litigation and can assist with the collection and exchange of discoverable materials in electronic format. We can assist with the full range of document management needs that lawyers are required to address.
Our Litigation Outsource team specializes in the following litigation support services:
- hard copy document processing (copying, scanning, barcoding, objective/subjective coding)
- electronic document processing
- data protocol development in accordance with court Practice Notes
- database development and management
- Appeal and Court book preparation
- complete project management
Legal Outsourcing jobs to India by 2015
India has huge potential in legal outsourcing, with the number of jobs in the field increasing to 79,000 by 2015, a study by an American research firm has said.
The study estimated that jobs in the field which was poised to increase dramatically from about $80 million annually to approximately $4 billion would grow to 29,000 in 2008, 35,000 by 2010, and 79,000 by 2015. At present the number of jobs in legal outsourcing in India stood less than 12,000, it said.
Outsourcing would reduce costs for US customers as the rates for Indian legal workers were about 10 to 20 per cent of their American counterparts. It said more than 200,000 Indians graduate from law schools each year, five times more than in the US.
"Indian outsourcing offers the following economic advantages: a significant wage differential with Indian firms report paying legal researchers around $12,000 per year. There are also savings in perks, overhead, and working conditions," the study said adding time zone differences allowed for overnight and 24X7 operations.