US Law Firms move to India

Howrey is opening its own office in India, although outsourcing is not what it is doing there, insists Robert Ruyak, the firm's managing partner and CEO. The firm's new India establishment isn't a law office, though, since Indian law prohibits U.S. firms from practicing there. The firm has a large number of document-intensive litigation, intellectual property and international arbitration matters, the legal publication reports—and much of the firm's document work already is being done right now by some 200 employees, most of whom aren't lawyers, working in a Falls Church, Va. office, in the Washington, D.C. Howrey plans to hire both Indian graduates of both U.S. colleges and Indian colleges and graduate schools and train them in Falls Church before sending them back to their home country.

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Legal Outsourcing from Canada

Faced with escalating legal cost, a Canadian Corporate firm has started outsourcing legal work to India. The new company called Legalwise is offering the same service in Canada, starting in Feb 2008.The Toronto-based Legalwise has 430 lawyers trained in common law principles, similar to Canada, in Mumbai and Pune ready to work for Canadian clients. The Indian lawyers can review documents, draft contracts, abstract a lease, perform due diligence or research and deliver a host of other services that a lawyer in Canada would normally assign to a junior or an assistant. www.aba.com

ATI Avocats merged with LEX Outsourcing for legal process outsourcing to India

ATI Avocats, the global leader in legal process outsourcing to corporate in-house counsel and foreign law firms announced its merger with LEX outsourcing, another leader in LPO from 16 Jan, 2008. ATI Avocats is a division of a specialized law firm LEX NEXUS and LEX Outsourcing is a division of Hathi & Partners, a Mumbai based law firm - they are expanding the team and business for better and low cost services.

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Mauritius International Symposium held on 28-31 Jan, 2008

The Government of Mauritius in collaboration with the Board of Investment and Common Wealth Secretariat has organized a global symposium (ICT) in Mauritius at the end of Jan, 2008. Pankaj Parnami, Founder Director, KPO CONSULTANTS has been specifically invited to present his papers to help the Government positioning Mauritius as the destination for legal process outsourcing.

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Kwarma Vanderpuye becomes senior president and general counsel at SDD Global Solutions

Star litigator and former Cochran firm partner, Kwarma Vanderpuye, becomes Senior President and General Counsel at SDD Global Solutions, leading LPO in India. She will be responsible for training, recruiting, quality control and marketing for SDD Global in the US, Europe, Africa and Asia.

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Innodata Isogen signed contract with Alcatel Lucent

Innodata Isogen has signed a contract with Alcatel Lucent to provide support services for the latter's technical documentation materials for their customers. Innodata will also work with Alcatel-Lucent for the installation of a new CMS (content management system) environment.

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Employment in LPO Sector

Legal Process Outsourcing is projected to be the second fastest growing segment of the global BPO industry, estimated to increase dramatically from about $80 million in 2006 to approximately $4 billion by 2010. Employment in LPOs is also projected to grow to 32,000 next year, 40,000 by 2010, and 82,000 by 2015.

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LPO Symposium 2008 conducted by KPO CONSULTANTS

The future potential of globally legal outsourced business is at great pace. We must concentrate and focus our efforts to capitalize on this opportunity. Globally, there is huge expectation from India taking a lead in exploiting this potential for outsourcing. To provide, retain and engage the better talent for LPO Industry, KPO CONSULTANTS organized the LPO Symposium 2008 with the theme “Training and Placements in LPO Industry” on 9 February, 2008. There was an immense response from the industry. Almost 16 companies joined hands in this ground-breaking attempt.

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