Law firms can easily reap benefits of outsourcing their legal work to low cost & high quality countries. Vast pools of educated people are available in country like India where different processes can be outsourced to employees with high legal and engineering talents. Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) can benefit law firms in reducing their costs upto 50-60%. Generally, Legal Outsourcing involves wide variety of Outsourcing work, as a part of Legal Process Outsourcing.
Legal Process Outsourcing also requires the Outsourcing partner to think 1) What process can I outsource? 2) How much cost will I save? 3) How much time will the firm save by engaging an outside Partner/ Attorney? 4) Can our outsourcing partner help me develop software tools that can automate the processes?
Case Study1: A mid-sized Texas law firm having approximately 20 Attorneys specialized in Accident Claims cases. The legal process required client filling up forms, engagement cum educational kit to be sent out to clients, preparing legal notice based on facts provided by client, preparing suit to be filed in the Courts. Jotwani Associates stepped in to automate the process whereby when the client fills up the form, it is automatically emails to Attorneys in U.S. & India. An Attorney in India sends out an email kit (based on the facts provided by client), uploads the files, sends out a notice to insurance, prepares the suit. The outsourcing partner wanted to be sure of the quality and therefore the workflow system was developed for proper “Approvals” to be given by Texas partners. The Texas law firm now employees 7 full time legal associates working in India on different aspects of the Accident Claims, including Litigation Support in a trial.
Case Study2: A small, but a very busy law firm having big multinational clients all over world realized that they would spend substantial time only drawing figures in Patent Applications for USPTO. Around 25% of the time in drafting a Patent Application would be spent on drawing figures. Moreover they did not have modern tools so that quality was not uniform. The law firm approached Jotwani Associates for Legal Processes Outsourcing. They wanted engineering talent that could only draw figures as per the USPTO specifications. All the Patent Attorneys in the firm now engage Jotwani Associates to draw figures. This legal outsourcing model has proved that the firm now has good quality figures, done in time, and also saving at least 15% of costs in drafting one Patent Application.
Jotwani Associates receives hordes of request to demonstrate the value they bring to their partners/ law firms by having Legal Process Outsourcing. We will be happy to set up a toll free conference call to elaborate more on our Legal Outsourcing Model.
SERVICES SUPPORTED
Any regular legal services that can be supported remotely for your law firm or for your clients, e.g., docketing system updates, legal database update, notices on mortgages, cease & desist, real estate due diligence, online notices having standard formats, legal magazine/ journal support to law firm clients.
2. IP SUPPORT
I. TRADEMARKS
Trademarks searches, filing and prosecution at USPTO;
II. PATENTS
Patent Preparation, Searches, Invalidation searches, Portfolio mapping, Prosecution at USPTO, Due Diligence Support of IP in case of Merger & Acquisitions.
3. CONTRACT REVIEW & MANAGEMENT
Contract Vetting, formatting and highlighting deviations from standard format.
4. PARALEGAL SUPPORT
Managing Attorney Calendars, Docketing Systems, Backup Management Services.
5. LITIGATION SUPPORT
Preparing Date and Event Schedule, Case Law Search and Summarizing.
6. E DISCOVERY
E Discovery of documents, formatting as per the evidence requirement.
Engagement Models for Legal Process Outsourcing (“LPO”)
- Fulltime Employee Model :Dedicated Charges for 1 (one) employee based in India:
- Per hour charges:
- Project basis:
WHY JOTWANI ASSOCIATES FOR OUTSOURICING LEGAL WORK?
- Employees bound by strong confidentiality and IP contracts, applicable both under the India and United States laws.
- Strong policies and technical firewalls among teams working in India.
- We never give out your name or your client’s names to anyone.
- Hiring from Campus, the Bar and Placement Consultants.
- Written Test, Drafting Test, Interviews and Group Discussion for candidates.
- Jotwani Associates provides extremely great facilities and infrastructure for employees in India.
- You can have your own phone number, postal address, and fax in India.
- Computers, Faxes, Air-conditioning, Conference call facilities, Software like Vista, Word, Acrobat Standard are provided free of cost to employees.
- Free of costs lunch and snacks are provided for office employees.
- We provide weekly in-house training to employees on different subject matters - IP, Contracts, E-Discovery, Database handling, Litigation Support, etc.
- For certain high value projects, Jotwani Associates provide for tickets & stay of employees to US to get training.
- Easy exit terms of giving 90 days notice to employees or Jotwani Associates.
NEXT STEPS FOR LEGAL PROCESS OUTSOURCING (LPO)
- Identify the Project and Pricing Model that your organization is interested in.
- Jotwani Associates will set up a conference call to understand your requirements, if needed.