Articles tagged with: legal process outsourcing (LPO)

LPO UnitedLex buys smaller rival LawScribe after growing 20% in 8 months

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internet-IT-globe
Legal process outsourcing (LPO) company UnitedLex, which is backed by Indian and Silicon Valley venture capital (VC) firms, has acquired Los Angeles-based LPO LawScribe giving it offices in Los Angeles, New York and Gurgaon, reported VCCircle.

Opinion: How to start your own LPO (and how not to)

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Starting up a legal process outsourcing (LPO) business may be a perceived goldmine and en vogue these days but it takes more than just office, staff and website and most start-up LPOs are wasting their time, warns SDD Global Solutions’ Sanjay Bhatia.

Clifford Chance makes another 'exceptional' hire from Indian legal offshoring unit OSC

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CliffordChance-London-office
Clifford Chance has again hired a legal “consultant” from its Gurgaon-based captive legal process outsourcing (LPO) centre OSC Export Services as a lawyer into the main firm.

Ryder's Scriboard enters atypical 'best friend' alliance with LPO Overlegen

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Kochhar & Co’s former technology and media law partner Rodney Ryder who started up IP and IT boutique practice Scriboard in April has entered into a strategic alliance with legal process outsourcing (LPO) company Overlegen.

Stand up now: Which LPO will not be working with Microsoft?

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microsoft-windows
Wipro Technologies is the third legal process outsourcing (LPO) company in almost as many months to announce that it is providing LPO services to software giant Microsoft. But like the others it has been providing LPO services to Microsoft for years. The real story here is how good the Redmont company has been getting at outsourcing legal work.

Stand up now: Which LPO will not be working with Microsoft?

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microsoft-windows
Wipro Technologies is the third legal process outsourcing (LPO) company in almost as many months to announce that it is providing LPO services to software giant Microsoft. But like the others it has been providing LPO services to Microsoft for years. The real story here is how good the Redmont company has been getting at outsourcing legal work.

Pangea3 hires 18 from campus, will pump Rs 48 crore into Delhi to outgrow Mumbai

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pangea3-mezzanine-mumbai
Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) company Pangea3 has hired 18 students through campus placements this year with a majority 12 coming from non-national law schools, as the company has moved into larger Delhi office and plans to grow the location with significant investment.

LPO Pangea3 sets up London office

Legal process outsourcing (LPO) company Pangea3 has set up a marketing office in London to attack the European market, reported the UK’s Law Society Gazette.

LPO Pangea3 sets up London office

Legal process outsourcing (LPO) company Pangea3 has set up a marketing office in London to attack the European market, reported the UK’s Law Society Gazette.

Legal opinion: Ashurst, Balaji and other writ petitions: Are LPOs safe?

SDD Global Sanjay Bhatia
SDD Global Sanjay Bhatia
Legal process outsourcing (LPO) companies have come under the spotlight after the the recent Balaji Chennai High Court writ petition and the Bombay High Court’s decision in the Lawyers Collective v. Ashurst case. The cases have created significant uncertainty, argues SDD Global’s Sanjay Bhatia, although for the most part it has been a false alarm for LPOs.

India LPO Inc headcounts to triple as 15% of work at US/UK associate level

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The Indian legal process outsourcing (LPO) industry will more than triple in size and employ 17,000 professionals within five years, predicted research and analytics firm Evalueserve in a study. Around 15 per cent of outsourced services is so-called high-end work that is normally handled by US and UK associates.

LPO Pangea3 doubled in size last year. adds 50% Mumbai seats

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pangea3-mezzanine-mumbai
Legal process outsourcing (LPO) company Pangea3 has acquired 12,000 square feet of floorspace with a 165-seat capacity on a mezzanine above its existing office in Andheri earlier this month.

Indian LPO defends Ali G US libel claim for fraction of cost of Wall Street firms

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Mysore-based legal process outsourcing (LPO) company SDD Global has successfully helped defend an $800,000 California Court of Appeal libel claim against Sacha Baron Cohen, the creator of comedy characters Ali G and Borat.

Four-year-old LPO UnitedLex targets $35-40m revenue, bags BT legal outsourcing contract

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internet-IT-globe
Telecoms major BT has entered into an agreement to outsource part of its global in-house legal work to legal process outsourcing (LPO) provider UnitedLex, beginning with a team of 15 lawyers based mostly in India.

Top 3 reasons to work at an LPO. But would you?

Legal process outsourcing (LPO) companies are giving stiff competition to law firms in the talent hunting stakes, writes the Eco Times today . The article quotes several people working at LPOs, who claim that compared to law firms the companies offer: better growth opportunities, decent working hour...

Young LPO Overlegen opens Texas sales office

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Legal process outsourcing (LPO) newcome Overlegen has opened an office in the US, after hiring a new vice president for business development North America in Austin, Texas.

CPA Global LPO poaches Rio Tinto legal chief and top client

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Legal process outsourcing (LPO) provider CPA Global has hired Rio Tinto’s managing attorney Leah Cooper as a board member, following Cooper striking a deal last year to outsource $20m of the mining giant’s annual legal work to CPA in India.

24-year-old NUJS student starts up LPO

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Offshore Research Partners Ashish Arun
A final-year NUJS Kolkata student has set up and is running a legal process outsourcing (LPO) firm of seven lawyers.

New Kolkata LPO: JV between Khaitan partner, US Co

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Khaitan & Partners managing partner Niloy Pyne is launching a legal process outsourcing (LPO) company of up to 35 lawyers in Kolkata in joint venture with a large US health insurance and BPO provider.

Responsibility management / Issue 26

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LegallyIndia_KianGanz-180
Things usually start out nice and steady and the managing partner wears the star rainmaker cap and every other hat on top of it.

But with greater size come greater responsibilities.

It is therefore not a huge surprise that Amarchand Mumbai has taken on a chief operating officer (COO) to relieve the Shroff family of some of its internal management duties.

That Amarchand has hired a non-Indian COO from the UK is more unusual.