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What do law firms look for while outsourcing legal processes?

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The prosperity of law firms is largely dependent on the camaraderie they build by providing quality of service, consistency, timeliness; and in defining and defending their client’s legal/contractual rights. The relationship between a law firm and a client develops on trust and transcends generations. To maintain and sustain relationship with clients, law firms avoid emphasizing on the attractiveness of reduction in cost of legal services by using global resources. But, it does not elude the significant pressure that this industry faces in minimizing the cost of legal work. Indeed, it necessitates outsourcing of legal work to legal process outsourcing service providers who perform the work at significantly decreased costs. Legal Process Outsourcing is a high-end industry that has been growing rapidly in the recent years. It is the process of assigning law-related tasks to external firms, globally, which are capable in handling those tasks efficiently. There is a plethora of...

LEGAL SUPPORT SERVICES IMPACT ON LEGAL INDUSTRY

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Legal process outsourcing (legal support services) identifies this practice of a law firm or company to obtain legal support services by a legal support services firm (LPO supplier) can also be trending among attorneys and law firms with the improvement of the technology that has in-house experience to perform paralegal tasks like lawsuit database maintenance, law-suit management, contract management, administration and clerical work. This phenomenon was part of this legal experience since the 1950s. The idea of legal process outsourcing (legal support services) is based upon the division of labor principle at which time constraint and workforce is now rampant in the authorized companies and this allows the company to tackle the different legal problems that come up on a daily basis while being able to streamline productivity. The leading proponents of the process have now been corporate customers concerned with rising authorized expenditures. The largest attraction for its western...

INTRODUCTION TO LEGAL PROCESS OUTSOURCING(LPO)

A.     Legal Process Outsourcing – a value added KPO service Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) is one of the value added KPO services which involves legal work that companies outsource to more economical offshore destinations.Legal outsourcing consists of various processes which can be classified into low skilled quantitative tasks or high end qualitative tasks.Low skilled quantitative tasks consist of:•         Paralegal Services & Legal Coding•         Corporate Secretarial Services•         Legal Memo Development•         Medical & Legal Transcription•         Document Management•         Litigation Support•         Data entry•   ...

DOCUMENT CODING AND ITS PROCESS / WORKFLOW

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Document coding is the process of identifying and extracting information specific to each document into a common form to ensure a well-organized later date search. Our company as skilled and dedicated Indian attorneys, who are well versed with the complexities of document coding. Our team has worked on various platforms including Relativity. Our company offers the following  document coding and review services :   Objective coding   The basic purpose of coding is to organize a collection of information into a database and retrieving the same, as and when necessary. We have a well-defined process to analyze and understand the project specifications. This helps our team to understand client’s requirements and execute assignments both efficiently and accurately.   Subjective coding   Subjective Coding is a more comprehensive coding process in addition to the objective coding that includes keywords and relevant data coding from the document text. S...

DOCUMENT CODING REVIEW SERVICES AND ITS PROCESS/ WORKFLOW

Document coding is the process of identifying and extracting information specific to each document into a common form to ensure a later date search. Our company has skilled and dedicated Indian attorneys, who are well versed with the complexities of document coding.  Our team has worked on various platforms including Relativity. Our company offers the following document coding and review services: Objective coding The basic purpose of coding is to organize a collection of information into a database and retrieving the same, as and when necessary. We have a well-defined process to analyze and understand the project specifications. This helps the team to understand client’s requirements and execute assignments both efficiently and accurately. Subjective coding Subjective Coding is a more comprehensive coding process in addition to the objective coding that includes keywords and relevant data coding from the document text. Such coding is flexible and specific to clien...

DOCUMENT CODING AND ITS PROCESS / WORKFLOW

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Document coding is the process of identifying and extracting information specific to each document into a common form to ensure a well-organized later date search. Our company as skilled and dedicated Indian attorneys, who are well versed with the complexities of document coding. Our team has worked on various platforms including Relativity. Our company offers the following  document coding and review services : Objective coding The basic purpose of coding is to organize a collection of information into a database and retrieving the same, as and when necessary. We have a well-defined process to analyze and understand the project specifications. This helps our team to understand client’s requirements and execute assignments both efficiently and accurately. Subjective coding Subjective Coding is a more comprehensive coding process in addition to the objective coding that includes keywords and relevant data coding from the document text. Such coding is flexible and s...

Legal Support Services Project Flow

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The US law firms and SKJ Juris adopt either of the following options for executing the project: Option 1: SKJ Juris’ Project Management team creates an account in leXorbit project management solution/ sets-up a FTP server for the US law firm and sends the login details to the US law firm’s Project Management team. (Note: For resolving IT and project administration related issues, SKJ Juris’ project management team coordinates with the US law firm’s project management team.) The project data is uploaded by the  US law firm’s project management team   on leXorbit solution/ SKJ Juris’ secured FTP server and instructions are sent either through leXorbit or by way of email to SKJ Juris’ project manager, as the case may be. SKJ Juris’ project manager downloads project data and instructions and communicates to SKJ Juris’ Team Leader (TL). After perusal of the project data and instruction, TL seek further clarification, if required from the US law firm’s subject ma...