Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Guest Post: Offshoring of Legal Research and Writing
As mentioned in the earlier post welcoming 2008, this is the first guest post in the
series. The author of this post is Tariq Hafeez, the President of and General Counsel for LegalEase Solutions LLC.


Introduction
As legal process outsourcing (LPO) continues to expand in market share, so too will the number of service offerings from LPOs. Law, much like medicine, is a profession ripe with specialties and specialists. The various types of legal support services that can be offshored are as varied and diverse as the legal market itself. In today’s nascent LPO market, most LPO providers offer a wide array of legal support services—a one stop shop for legal outsourcing. As the LPO industry continues to develop and mature, LPOs will differentiate themselves not only by size and capabilities, but also by what area of law they are best suited to outsource.

Legal research and writing (LR&R) services encompass both drafting research memoranda as well as drafting legal pleadings of all varieties—trial motions, briefs in support, appellate briefs, writs, etc.

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