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The growing challenges that law firms face are, meeting the increasing demands of legal support from the organization. Outsourcing is considered as an effective solution for doing “more for less”, i.e., increasing the scope beyond the core legal services delivery. The avenue of choice to the clients have no longer remained confined to legal services by law firms ; it is extended to in-house, law firm and third party legal support companies . This will lead to creation of correct service blend to ideally suit the clients. In recent times, many organizations are adopting a hybrid model for achieving success in terms of value and realization of benefits. This hybrid model allows the organization to provide seamless services by a perfect mix of in-house and outsourced legal support services. UK-based law firms are at the forefront for adoption of perfect mix approach. Recent research indicates that over half of the UK’s top 30 law firms have turned to legal support outsourcing o...

The Exchange Visitor (J) non-immigrant visa is for individuals qualified to participate in the study and workbased visitor programs. The J visa is divided into two parts namely J-1 and J-2 visa. The primary goals of the Exchange Visitor Program or J-1 Visa are to give participants the opportunity to engage with theNative Americans, strengthen and test their English language abilities, share their culture, and learn or build new skills that could benefit them in future careers. Whereas, the J-2 visa allows a non-immigrant dependent like unmarried children below the age of 21 or spouse to be accompanied by the J-1 exchange visitor or later join J-1 holder in the United States. In both cases, an Immigration Support Service Company is very beneficial to hire which guides properly and saves a lot of time. Eligibility and Departments of the J-1 visa program The J-1 visa program has fifteen different categories of participants, of which thirteen categories include privately-fun...

The law firms and corporates believe that legal process outsourcing (LPO) , besides being hassle-free, is   hands-down the most popular and effective process of obtaining external legal support services to lessen their burden with regard to their legal matters. Although factors like low cost work force, convenience and quality results may be the main causes of outsourcing legal work, it is important for in-house legal departments, law firms and attorneys to carefully weigh the pros and cons before choosing alegal process outsourcing vendor. Like every industry the LPO industry also has its share of advantages and disadvantages. Advantages being: (a)                 A LPO companyoperates on low costs so itcan afford to charge a low fee for its support services from its clients (firms and corporates). Resultantly, the client’s legal cost diminishes and they are left with more funds to invest in the cor...

Most of the law firms these days face a lot of issues in document review, which might be confusing and time taking. But the intervention of electronics discovery also known as e-discovery has improved consistency in legal proceedings such as litigations and government investigation. When legal professionals think of 'e-discovery,' the only thing that comes to their mind is attorney document review. The review process of e-Discovery involves the analysis and review of collected documents of a particular case to determine whether the documents collected are relevant to the case or not. It also tells whether any of the collected documents contain protected or privileged information. The document review in eDiscovery is usually done by softwares that are developed with the help of predictive coding which integrates artificial intelligence in the process of eDiscovery document review. SKJ Juris is a document review company that offers you eDiscovery document review through hu...

Nobody knows when and where they find their match on this planet and thus, Transnational Marriage has become very common in today’s world. If you are a U.S. citizen and wish to bring your spouse i.e., wife or husband to the United States to live then there are a set of laws that need to be obeyed and fulfilled. What does it mean? Marriage-Based Immigration program lets a foreign spouse of a U.S. citizen apply for and live in the United States with “Permanent Resident Status”until he/she fulfills the U.S. Citizenship criteria. Who is called a Spouse? A spouse is a legally wedded wife or husband. ●         Living together only does not qualify for Marriage-Based Immigration. ●         S pouses bound by common law may qualify for marriage-based immigration depending on the laws of the nation in which common-law marriage occurs. ●           In the case of ...

ERDM stands for Electronic Discovery Reference Model. EDRM is a framework that outlines the standards for the discovery and recovery and of digital data. EDRM is a conceptual standard for the e-discovery process. It is designed to gather and assimilate the electronic data during the legal process, including the discovery of criminal evidence. Stages of EDRM The EDRM consists of nine steps for Electronically Stored Information management. It is not necessary to implement all the steps of EDRM for discovering relevant data. In fact, involvement of only some of the stages may suffice the purpose. ●         Information management- implementingdata governance processes to mitigate risk and costs in the event of an electronic discovery request. ●         Identification- Locating sources of information for determining the nature of data and the steps involved in its management. ●     ...

The growing challenges that law firms face are, meeting the increasing demands of legal support from the organization. Outsourcing is considered as an effective solution for doing “more for less”, i.e., increasing the scope beyond the core legal services delivery. The avenue of choice to the clients have no longer remained confined to legal services by law firms ; it is extended to in-house, law firm and third party legal support companies. This will lead to creation of correct service blend to ideally suit the clients. In recent times, many organizations are adopting a hybrid model for achieving success in terms of value and realization of benefits. This hybrid model allows the organization to provide seamless services by a perfect mix of in-house and outsourced legal support services. UK-based law firms are at the forefront for adoption of perfect mix approach. Recent research indicates that over half of the UK’s top 30 law firms have turned to legal support outsourcing ...