The main legal work that has been outsourced to India until now is of paralegal, litigation support and secretarial nature. It ranges from indexing and scanning documents, word processing, legal transcription, coding, converting physical data into electronic form, digital dictation, to reviewing transactional and litigation documents, surveying laws of various jurisdictions and creating data-base of legal records etc.
Out of all these, document review is the most popular task outsourced. In most cases a vendor scans and uploads the document onto a secure intranet site. Lawyers in India access the documents, identify responsive and privileged documents, and, when complete, upload their findings back onto the intranet.
However, nowadays, even the hardcore legal work is being outsourced to Indian lawyers including e.g.,
Contract review and monitoring; Document review for due diligence; Patent drafting; Simple filing; Legal research; and Drafting & negotiating contracts.
Many companies and firms providing this hard core services have either one or two persons qualified in other jurisdictions and having knowledge of their legal systems as supervisors or, the companies like GE uses senior in-house counsel in the United States to interview, hire and supervise its overseas lawyers. It alleviates the various concerns raised about unauthorized practice of law.
The main legal work that has been outsourced to India until now is of paralegal, litigation support and secretarial nature. It ranges from indexing and scanning documents, word processing, legal transcription, coding, converting physical data into electronic form, digital dictation, to reviewing transactional and litigation documents, surveying laws of various jurisdictions and creating data-base of legal records etc.
ReplyDeleteOut of all these, document review is the most popular task outsourced. In most cases a vendor scans and uploads the document onto a secure intranet site. Lawyers in India access the documents, identify responsive and privileged documents, and, when complete, upload their findings back onto the intranet.
However, nowadays, even the hardcore legal work is being outsourced to Indian lawyers including e.g.,
Contract review and monitoring;
Document review for due diligence;
Patent drafting;
Simple filing;
Legal research; and
Drafting & negotiating contracts.
Many companies and firms providing this hard core services have either one or two persons qualified in other jurisdictions and having knowledge of their legal systems as supervisors or, the companies like GE uses senior in-house counsel in the United States to interview, hire and supervise its overseas lawyers. It alleviates the various concerns raised about unauthorized practice of law.
Following types of work are also outsourced to Indian Lawyers -
ReplyDeleteA. Sales, Purchanse of Property.
B. Mortgage of Property.