Outsourcing
Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) involves in-house legal departments, law firms and other organizations to outsource legal work from geographic areas where it is costly to perform to geographic areas where it can be performed at a decreased cost.
India is a primary destination of legal outsourcing. Several international law firms and legal departments of large corporations are outsourcing their legal work to reduce costs and increase efficiencies. The firm has established well equipped team support outsourcing work like document review, due diligence ,contract management, patent work, arbitral proceeding.
Legal support services
- data management, carrying out electronic and other file reviews,
- conducting analysis involving discovery requests, internal investigations and corporate due diligence
- creating electronic files with documents searchable by subject, issue, author, recipient, date and document type, allowing clients to retrieve needed documents
- searching and analyzing large numbers of agreements, creating spreadsheets or other databases presenting the relevant information.
- Legal drafting, legal briefs and memorandum, contract drafting, review and analysis, summaries of witness statements, creations of print, translation of voice and video conversation.
Intellectual property rights services
These includes specialized patent services ranging from high-end patent drafting, patent illustration, prior art searches, patent mapping and landscaping services to generic services like patent proofreading.
Further these services include patent prosecution which requires involvement of scientists’, engineers’ and doctors’ knowledge. Law firms which do not have such personnel outsource to specialists from LPO firms.
Document processing services
Providers offer services which traditionally fallen under the category of knowledge process outsourcing but require more technical analysis at some stage during the process. This includes immigration visa and health insurance claims processing.
Depending on a client’s request, these providers may either simply flag to the client items that require further analysis or, in some circumstances; undertake the analysis themselves by applying guidelines given to them by the client. The offshore teams typically involved in document processing services understand the importance of certain data or information and thus are tasked with vigilantly flagging issues that arise.
Advantages of legal process outsourcing in India through Astrea Legal Associates.
- Legal process outsourcing gives onshore personnel the ability to spend more time on higher value-added activities as the offshore legal workforce takes care of the details. This bifurcation of duties and the ability of teams to work around the clock on matters can lead to real-time benefits for onshore attorneys and clients alike.
- Astrea Legal’s outsourcing service provider team is supported by enormous workforce, helps to improve ability to serve client with most efficient manner by providing legal support services quickly, efficiently at a very affordable price and confidentiality.
- The firm adopted strict policy to ensure
- Quality
- Confidentiality
- Conflict of interest
- Response time
- IP
The firm services are conducted by trained legal researchers familiar with the global legal systems and proficient in delivering reports in the format for legal memorandum.