Brief Knowledge about LPO. (Legal Process Outsourcing)

1. What is legal process oursourcing
• Legal Process outsourcing is an emerging industry in which in
house legal departments of large multinational corporations
and forward looking law firms benefits from the significant
reduction in costs and time efficiencies by outsourcing low-
end standard and less sensitive legal tasks to highly qualified
skilled and motivated professionals based on India.
• Legal outsourcing is one of the value added BPO service
which involves legal work that companies outsource to work
that companies outsource to more economical offshore
destination. Legal outsourcing has gained tremendous ground
in the past few years in the India have had success by
providing services such as document review, legal research
and writing, drafting, legal research and writing, drafting of
pleading and brief and proving patent services.

2. How it work?
• Legal outsourcing consists of various process which can be
classified into low skilled quantitative task or high end
quantitative task include paralegal services and legal coding
corporate secretarial services, legal memo
development, transcription, document management, litigation
support and data entry.
• High end quantitative task include intellectual property rights
(IPR).Patent search and application on, drafting trade mark
and copyright registration legal research, document review
and analysis and intelligent services.

3. What kind of work will be
included?
• Legal Research- Using online legal documents.
• Litigation Support- Drafting of pleading e-discovery. Lawyers
are provide law firm litigation support process-Data
security, OCR, Document conversion, Review
Platform, coding, quality check methods.
• Intellectual Property- Any intangible (we can not touch) asset
that consist of human knowledge and ideas as like any
invention and discovery.
• Copyright, trademark and patent related support.
• Trade Secret- is a
formula, practice, design, pattern, confidential information.

4. Why Out source in India?
• The advantage of the time zone
• Availability of English speaking attorneys
• Familiarity with common law doctrines
• Indian attorneys with us/uk qualification are a plenty
• Labour cost differential-It almost cost up to 80% less than the
us firms
• Most LPO outfits in India reported to be staffed 24/7
• The Indian legal professionals are taught to analytically
interpret the laws
• Regulations of the Land by generously drawing on the similar
legislations of other similar legal systems and are exposed to
common English law.

5. What is Legal Research?
• Legal citations case pulls, appellate record and brief search
• Preparation of brief memoranda, motions and pleading for
trial work and formal presentation
• Drafting and formulation of discovering documentation, pre-
trial e-discovery documentation testimony of witnesses
examination of documents
• Documentation for trial and judgement stage
• Legal brief advocating client’s legal position
• Letter advocating of legal position
• Rules of regulations
• Annotates summary of cases with copies of relevant cases

6. What is Litigation Support or
documents?
• Preparation of summons and complaints
• Discovery requests and responses-Interrogatories product of
document
• Motions
• Services/Mailing Affidavits
• Creation of timeline of event and exhibits

7. What is Legal document
Management?
• Legal Document Management will include……..
• Indexing of document
• Subjective and objective coding
• Search documents
• Conversion of documents

8. What is Document Review?
• Document review is first level of litigation and E-discovery.
During the document review proves quite often millions of
documents have to be searched and identified for case
relevancy, confidentiality, privileged/protection and
key/status. (Relevancy criteria is –internal finance, product
design, relevant technologies, users guides)
• In depth analysis and identification of data and document
relating to specific due –diligence or litigation for
materiality, privilege and responsiveness to discover requests
• Large scale electronic file review and summarisation of large
documents
• Tools to manage, control, archive, retrieve and distribute
electronic documents

9. What is E-Discovery?
E-discovery is electronic online data. Electronic documents are
easy to create, much easier than paper email and message know
for e-documents. E-discovery is time consuming and cheap
process. Discovery means gathering the evidence during the
pre-trial phase of lawsuit. E-data which stored on your
computer. Multiple pages can be finding out in seconds.

10. What is intellectual property?
Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct
types of legal monopolies over creations of the mind. Both
artistic and commercial , under intellectual property law, owner
are granted certain exclusive rights, such as musical, literary and
artistic works; discoveries and inventions; common types of
intellectual property include copyright, trademark, patent
industrial design right and trade secret in some jurisdiction.

11. What is docket number?
• Docket –
• Docket is the calendar of court, list of cases, and summary of
the court cases. A written list of judicial proceedings set down
for trial in a court.

12. What due diligence investigation
will include?
• Employment history
• Criminal
• Driver and/or professional license
• Education
• Financial /history status

13. What is Coding?
• Coding is a way to represent data in particular keywords or
format.
• Coding is two types-
• Objective- Objective coding includes, such information as
dates, author, recipient, title and name. Objective coding done
in excel file.
• Subjective- Review, read the material and analyse the
document. Subjective Coding in done in word.
• Objective-Picking files which field type. (Well define

14. Litigation Support Process
• Data security
• OCR
• Document conversion
• Review platform
• Coding check methods
• Product, delivery and turnaround
• Project Management

15. Substantive Law and Procedural
Law
Substantive law-
• Is the statutory or written law that governs right and
obligation (duties) of those who are subject to it? It defines
legal relationship of people with other people.
Procedural Law-
• Its differs from sustentative law procedure law comprises the
rules by which a court hears and determines what happens in
civil and criminal proceedings. The rules are designed to
ensure a fair and consistent application of due process (in the
U.S. or fundamental justice) to all cased that come before a
court.