LegalEase Solutions needs to get the word out that we are an active player in the market. The 'market' is getting more aware of the benefits and it is important we position ourselves to play competitively when it gets going on its feet.
Emily KoppTuesday, December 13, 2005
Texas lawyer Michael Gorton says he's "fairly opposed" to sending work overseas. For patriotic reasons, he believes work should be done close to home, with talent bred in the United States. Whenever practical, he says, he favors doing business with friends.
But when it comes to running Dallas-based TelaDoc, the telemedicine company of which he's CEO, Gorton says he's happy to outsource legal help to India.
Gorton's first foray into the world of international outsourcing happened about a year and a half ago. Gorton says he hired his primary law firm (which he wishes to keep anonymous) to conduct research on legal issues in half a dozen states. The firm's fee came to nearly $250,000.
So Gorton approached an outsourcing company he had read about in Texas Lawyer, a sister publication of the Daily Report. Atlas Legal Research promised its Indian lawyers could complete the same work at a fraction of the cost.
Thursday, December 15, 2005
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Legal outsourcing is a relatively new industry, but it is attracting growing interest and was recently profiled in the Wall Street Journal (See Legal Services Enter Outsourcing Domain, Eric Bellman, 9/28/05). It has also been written about in a number of trade publications geared towards business and legal professionals.
The basic idea is tapping into the intellectual capital of lawyers in India (who are trained much like US lawyers in a very similar legal system--a by-product of British colonialism). By using lawyers in India to do much of the time-intensive documentation, legal research, and writing, US lawyers can gain efficiencies and cut costs, thereby attracing new clients. Businesses who typically have a small staff of in-house lawyers, stand to gain the most, as they can increase their capacity without sending work off to over-priced law firms.
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