What is Legal Process Outsourcing

The process of Outsourcing Legal Work by a Law firm or company to another Law Firm is called Legal Process Outsourcing.

This process is mostly seen in the legal community of the States, wherein legal work is outsourced to legal process outsourcing companies in India.

Legal process outsourcing, or LPOs, encompasses a variety of legal works and services, like litigation, patent services, legal research, legal drafting, and the like..

As mentioned above, legal organizations in the West, namely, the States (USA), the United Kingdom, and Europe as a whole, branch out their legal work requirements to countries where lawyers can be sought after, in turn for fewer expenses incurred by the seeking firm.

Here, India meets the financial and legal requirements of such firms in these countries.

It provides or extends legal services for cheaper than that in the countries mentioned above, and thus, results in huge savings by the interested organizations or law firms.

The legal process outsourcing sector is growing at an exponential rate in India, thereby attracting a large number of investors.

The main activities carried out as part of the LPO sector include legal drafting, legal research, legal reviews, and so on.

The first legal firm to have conducted legal outsourcing in India, namely, Bickel & Brewer, did so in 1995, with I&A International, its office situated in the city of Hyderabad.

It worked with digitizing legal documents and strived to create easy databases to sift through.

Further, it hired lawyers whose main task was to review legal documents produced in an ongoing lawsuit.

The year 2001 marked the first company, GE, to outsource its legal work to one of the legal process outsourcing companies in India.