Legal Outsourcing is a nascent industry, which optimizes the modern day technology advantage by converging talents worldwide for providing globalized legal solutions. For many, legal outsourcing still means transcription, updating legal databases and quasi-legal functions like litigation support for multinationals. But many companies offer premium legal support solutions including drafting of trial and appellate briefs, pleadings and research memoranda at a fraction of the cost that typical US law firms would charge. Legal Process Outsourcing throws open endless possibilities by optimizing technology and talents.
In an industry where time is money, what would be an easy solution for a bizarre legal issue regarding recognition of a foreign court’s judgment in another sovereign state? You may either want to reinvent the wheel doing all the research yourself, surfing through an endless list of precedents which, at times may only remotely agree to your point and you have only four days at your disposal. All other assignments demanding your immediate attention may have to be kicked to the backburner and obviously, this means loss of productive hours and in turn loss of time, money and energy. Or, in the alternative, simply outsource your problem to an LPO! This is exactly what a Canadian client did and we, at LegalEase got an amazing opportunity to be part of an assignment of global ramifications.
The issue involved the determination rights of an estranged couple, entangled in the laws of two independent sovereign states, UK and Canada. It was an uneasy terrain since international law and treaties applicable to the case turned out to be an amorphous baggage of provisions with less binding effect, even on concurring states. In fact, finding the right statute and case laws was something like searching for a needle in the haystack. Yet, we managed to finish the research in a flash turn around time of four working days, drafting a perfect case for the client with adequate statutory and legal backing for the recognition of UK bankruptcy judgments in Canada. The opposite party, on reading the memo prepared by LegalEase Solutions abandoned his plans to proceed against our client and opted for an out-of-the court settlement entirely on our client’s terms!
LPOs like LegalEase employ talent from the cream of the crop for providing legal support services to clients worldwide. The company employs world class technology and makes use of encrypted secure network for data transmission to allay the apprehensions of offshore clients regarding confidentiality. Legal Outsourcing is poised for a steady growth as burgeoning market provides ample scope for diversification. LegalEase is providing a bunch of value–added services ranging from high-end research and drafting to support services like document review, contract drafting, lease abstraction, summarization of pre-trial documents, legal coding and analyzing and has much more are in the offing. Of course, the global legal landscape has changed as never before and remedy for complex legal issues are just a mouse click away.
Author: Seema Sarathkumar
Associate, LegalEase Solutions, Kochi. India.
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