Processes and Procedures of LPOThe primary success factors for first level document review LPO in India rest on detailed and measurable processes and procedures. To be successful, your LPO service provider must be armed with the following:
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Monday, December 29, 2008
Processes and Procedures of LPO
BELOW ARE SAMPLES OF THE TYPE OF PROJECTS THAT MAY COME UNDER LPO
BELOW ARE SAMPLES OF THE TYPE OF PROJECTS THAT MAY COME UNDER LPO
1. LEGAL TRANSCRIPTION
Legal transcription and documentation process is an important task requiring:
- A high level of confidentiality
- Accuracy obtained out of experience
- Timely execution of work
Transcription of meetings, interviews, phone conversations, accident reports, deposition summaries 24 hours and can be same day when requirements dictate.
for example : covering meeting or conference, from a verbatim transcript to an executive summary.
verbatim transcription if :
- Every word matters (deposition summery, focus groups, etc.)
- for statutory reasons, or to keep a legal record
- to edit audio or video (time coding)
Summary or report if :
- to give the readers a better-presented, more efficient document that does not necessarily include all of the information example jury instructions
- save time to edit a transcript them self
- to increase the impact client meeting or event
2. TRIAL-LEVEL BRIEFS AND PLEADINGS /Document Review And Litigation service
Managing legal documents by reviewing huge amount of paper, containing unstructured information can be a daunting task for Law firms. The discovery process requires careful analysis of huge data to capture, streamline, arrange and understand and present vital, case-specific information and thereby consuming time.
1 traditional and electronic discovery assistance,
2. Review and catalogue documents, discover data pertinent to litigation
3. corporate due diligence matters,
4. Populate databases and prepare reports pertaining to such data.
some of the services we could offer :
- Objective coding (e.g., date, author(s), recipient(s), document type etc)
- Subjective coding (creating substantively coded indexes etc)
- Optical character recognition
- Document imaging
- Data acquisition, conversion, & retrieval
- Relevance and privilege analysis
- Electronic discovery
- Accession numbering
- Text retrieval & searching
- Database management
- Duplication identification & removal
- Summarization/abstraction of relevant/key/voluminous documents
- Litigation related on-going legal research
Data-intensive quasi-legal/non-legal research
* Briefs In Support of/Against Motion for Summary Disposition
* Briefs Against Motion to Compel Evidence
* Briefs in Support of Motion for Preliminary Injunction/TRO
* Briefs for Declaratory Relief
* Motions to Amend Complaint and Briefs in Support
* Motions in Limine and Briefs in Support
* Writs of Mandamus
* Criminal Law Motions and Briefs
* Trial briefs
* Complaints
3. RESEARCH MEMORANDA (LEGAL RESEARCH)
research methodology & domain expertise required to provide practice legal research.
Examples of research
- Multi-jurisdictional surveys of state and local case laws, statutes, ordinances and regulations
- Identification and summarization of relevant case law
- Statutory and case law analysis in the context of litigation support (assistance in brief writing)
- Citation checking for briefs and other litigation related documents
4. APPELLATE LEVEL BRIEFS AND RESEARCH
* Michigan Court of Appeals
* Federal 6th Circuit Court of Appeals
* Indiana Court of Appeals
* Ohio Court of Appeals
* California Court of Appeals
* DC Circuit Court of Appeals
* United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
5. CORPORATE SECRETARIAL
stricter corporate governance code and SOX regulation, corporate secretarial services have become crucial for all companies, big and small.
Corporate governance includes administrative work, legal requirements and statutory compliance consuming time. Outsourcing statutory compliance work and secretarial responsibilities to a specialized Corporate Secretarial support firm will help meet these challenges with efficiency and economy, while in-house resources of client will remain free for core functions.
Company Secretaries for (Corporate Laws and Secretarial matters).
drafting of your Board and Shareholder resolution and minutes.
handling corporate governance code and secretarial services including
- Incorporation of documents
- Creation & filing of statutory report
- Preparation of board & shareholder resolutions & minutes
- Maintaining of resolutions & minutes libraries
6. CONTRACT DRAFTING & MANAGEMENT
commercial contracting and licensing services, including drafting, reviewing and revising contracts.
contract management and administration services integrating seamlessly and securely with your systems on an on-going basis.
Some of the relevant task:
- Prepare draft contracts based on pre-agreed precedents and guidelines
- Breach of contracts
- Time of the essence" in contracts
- Enforceability of non-compete covenants
- Distribute draft contracts and solicit comments
- Review draft contracts on pre-agreed guidelines
- Accept/modify/reject comments based on pre-agreed guidelines and revise and redistribute drafts
- Arrange for drafts to be finalized and executed
- Upload and maintain contracts in client databases and summarize key term
7. ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
* Statute of Limitations on actions by US EPA and MDEQ
* Municipal water discharge
8. REAL PROPERTY
* Homeowners Association capacity to be sued
* Adverse possession by homeowners
9. ETHICS
* Creation and naming of out-of-state law office by Michigan firm
10 .FEDERAL TAX
* IRS treatment of office/shareholder
* 1031 Exchange ——–IPR Services means:- performing patent and trademark searches, IP monitoring, infringement research, application drafting, status tracking, proof reading of published patent applications and issued patents, and conducting patent related studies.
Work in the nature of
1. application drafting minimizing the likelihood of litigation 2.filing and maintaining patents and trademarks.
3.setting up the processes to monitoring, infringement research etc 4.paralegal team to assist attorneys in drafting
WHAT IS AN LPO?
WHAT IS AN LPO?
Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) is the industry in which in-house legal departments or organizations outsource legal work from areas where it is costly to perform, such as the United States or Europe etc. to areas where it can be performed at a significantly decreased cost, primarily India.
WHAT LPO'S UNDERTAKE
Conveyancing,
Drafting and Contract Management,
Litigation Support,
Legal Research,
Patents Portfolio Management,
Legal Transcription, and
Other Paralegal Support.
Basic Requirements
Basic infrastructure (Like minimum floor area of 800 sq. ft. etc)
Manpower (Depending on what type of matter you intent to insource into)
How to get clients
Options are many…like:-
Can try becoming a franchisee of some existing LPO's
Contact law firms abroad, esp. US, UK etc
Post yourself in some good Blog sites
But before you venture into it we would advice you to work with an LPO and get acquainted with it.
2008 Top 100 outsourcing companies
The 2008 Global Outsourcing Top 100
By: International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP)
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| 1 | Customer Testimonials |
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| 2 | Size & Growth |
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| 3 | Executive Leadership |
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| 4 | Global Presence |
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| 5 | Achievement Recognition |
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| 6 | Employee Management |
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| 7 | Employee Management |
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| 8 | Outsourcing Experience |
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| 9 | Executive Leadership |
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| 10 | Outsourcing Experience |
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| 11 | Outsourcing Experience |
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| 12 | Outsourcing Experience |
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| 13 | Balanced Performance |
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| 14 | Customer Testimonials |
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| 15 | Outsourcing Experience |
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| 16 | Customer Testimonials |
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| 17 | Customer Testimonials |
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| 18 | Global Presence |
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| 19 | Achievement Recognition |
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| 20 | Employee Management |
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| 21 | Balanced Performance |
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| 22 | Competency Certification |
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| 23 | Outsourcing Experience |
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| 24 | Competency Certification |
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| 25 | Size & Growth |
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| 26 | Achievement Recognition |
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| 27 | Competency Certification |
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| 28 | Employee Management |
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| 29 | Global Presence |
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| 30 | Number of Locations/Centers |
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| 31 | Balanced Performance |
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| 32 | Employee Management |
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| 33 | Balanced Performance |
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| 34 | Employee Management |
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| 35 | Achievement Recognition |
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| 36 | Size & Growth |
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| 37 | Outsourcing Experience |
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| 38 | Balanced Performance |
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| 39 | Customer Testimonials |
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| 40 | Competency Certification |
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| 41 | Customer Testimonials |
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| 42 | Competency Certification |
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| 43 | Balanced Performance |
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| 44 | Balanced Performance |
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| 45 | Employee Management |
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| 46 | Balanced Performance |
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| 47 | Global Presence |
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| 48 | Competency Certification |
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| 49 | Balanced Performance |
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| 50 | Balanced Performance |
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| 51 | Achievement Recognition |
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| 52 | Achievement Recognition |
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| 53 | Balanced Performance |
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| 54 | Achievement Recognition |
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| 55 | Global Presence |
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| 56 | Competency Certification |
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| 57 | Achievement Recognition |
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| 58 | Global Presence |
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| 59 | Achievement Recognition |
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| 60 | Achievement Recognition |
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| 61 | Employee Management |
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| 62 | Size & Growth |
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| 63 | Executive Leadership |
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| 64 | Balanced Performance |
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| 65 | Employee Management |
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| 66 | Executive Leadership |
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| 67 | Employee Management |
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| 68 | Outsourcing Experience |
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| 69 | Achievement Recognition |
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| 70 | Number of Locations/Centers |
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| 71 | Employee Management |
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| 72 | Outsourcing Experience |
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| 73 | Balanced Performance |
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| 74 | Balanced Performance |
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| 75* | Achievement Recognition |
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| 75* | Balanced Performance |
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| RANK | COMPANY (RISING STARS) | KEY STRENGTH |
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| 76 | Achievement Recognition |
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| 77 | Competency Certification |
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| 78 | Customer Testimonials |
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| 79 | Outsourcing Experience |
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| 80 | Customer Testimonials |
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| 81 | Balanced Performance |
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| 82 | Executive Leadership |
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| 83 | Employee Management |
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| 84 | Competency Certification |
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| 85 | Customer Testimonials |
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| 86 | Employee Management |
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| 87 | Competency Certification |
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| 88 | Executive Leadership |
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| 89 | Number of Locations/Centers |
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| 90 | Balanced Performance |
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| 91 | Achievement Recognition |
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| 92 | Customer Testimonials |
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| 93 | Achievement Recognition |
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| 94 | Global Presence |
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| 95 | Achievement Recognition |
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| 96 | Balanced Performance |
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| 97 | Achievement Recognition |
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| 98 | Number of Locations/Centers |
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| 99 | Balanced Performance |
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| 100 | Achievement Recognition |
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| 1-75 Leaders = Established, known companies 76-100 Rising Stars = Smaller, faster growing companies *Tie |
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