CPA joins Integreon to set up LPO in mumbai

Computer Patent Annuities Limited (CPA), a legal services provider, has entered a five-year agreement with Integreon under which Integreon will operate as an offshore legal process outsourcing (LPO) centre in Mumbai, India exclusively on behalf of CPA.

The delivery centre will provide legal support services, including litigation document review and management, deposition summaries, preparation of standard litigation documents, legal research and contract review and management to CPA’s corporate and law firm clients.

List of 100+ LPO firms - a majority of them with India connection

I started developing the list of legal outsourcing firms in India. But then why reinvent the carburetor?
This is what I found on the web, courtesy Prism legal.

Attenex follows Stratify into India

SQ Global Solutions, is partnering with Attenex to provide Legal review services from India.

Stratify already has its 100% subsidiary in India for e-discovery support. However, Stratify does not provide review services from India and seems to be looking to acquire or partner an LPO firm.

Legal outsourcing – hype buildup?

Interesting article on ILW.com by Mark Ross. Recently there have been a number of media reports on Indian companies quickly gaining traction in Legal outsourcing business. However, the Indian LPO market is still small (less than $200mn).

It seems that there are many over-enthusiastic third-party small LPOs that are constantly in news but are less than $10mn in size while the real revenues are being generated quietly by the legal outsourcing subdivisions of large players like Infosys BPO and Wipro Spectranet, both are quicly ramping up their LPO teams and milking their current large client base.

LPO Forum organised by ALM: Oct 24, 2007, San Francisco, CA

Interesting that its sponsors are SQ Global Solutions, Mindcrest and Lawscribe, all with presence in India.

You can read more about the event here

Ex-Citibanker Jerry Rao 'fathers' an LPO firm

Sorry for the bad pun but JuriMatrix is seems to be co-founded by Jerry's son.

Jerry Rao has become an angel investor in a company called JuriMatrix, based in Bangalore.
Jerry Rao has joined the board of this company as the non-executive chairman. JuriMatrix offers services such as litigation discovery, corporate due diligence, contract management and legal research. Rajat Gupta, former MD of McKinsey and Hema Ravichandar former HR head of Infosys are advisors to the firm.

Pangea3 claims to be ranked 1st in LPO worldwide

Interesting as P3 has just about 200 people, all based in Mumbai.

http://www.pangea3.com/news5.html

More news on Indian LPO growth: Business Standard

Please go through this article

SDD Global does high-end legal documentation work for 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures, HBO, Calvin Klein and John Wiley.

In comes Stratify, which has developed proprietary software, eDiscovery, which has automated document search and collection and tracks production of legal documents, a soft of product lifestyle management for law firms.

Stratify helps do away with many of the labour-intensive legal research processes and crashes time and effort needed to collect documents and communication relating to a particular case.

“We help reduce costs, errors and timelines,” said Ramana Venkata, President and CEO, Stratify, funded by the VC arm of the CIA In-Q-Tel, Intel Capital and Mobius VC. It plans to invest $10 million over three years in organic growth and much more in inorganic growth.

“LPO is an example of a highly-specialised job being outsourced to India,” says Ritvik Lukose, vice-president — marketing and operations, Rainmaker, a training school for orienting lawyers for an LPO job.

LPO attracting more players in India

WNS and ExlService are looking for LPO acquisions and Mindcrest is interesting in selling out.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/The_Week_That_Was/WNS_Global_ExlService_look_at_LPO/articleshow/2256129.cms

Bigger Multinational Legal Services players like Lexis Nexis, Thomson Westlaw, Stratify and Attenex would surely be interested in Indian acquisitions.

LPO Watch

This is the first online magazine on India's Legal Process Outsourcing sector. Check out the May edition featuring Raman Roy, founder of Quatrro BPO Solutions (P) Ltd.

Another of SDD Global's PR effort of LPO

This mentions that

1. Infosys and Wipro are interested in going into Legal offshoring business.
2. Hiring the required skilled people are difficult
3. LPO is a business segment pegged at $3-4 billion by Nasscom.

SDD Global is one of the offshoring firms focusing on Legal domain as mentioned in the previous article.

Firm: SDD Global Solutions.

Managed by Smith Dornan Dehn, a NY based law firm!

accroding to this Economic Times article Based in Mysore, SDD Global with around 40 people, has good focus on Hollywood.

Interestign Client List
HBO
Sony Pictures Television
Universal Pictures
MTV Networks
Channel Four TV (UK)
ABC

SDD Global has already attracted a good set of investors including Stata Bank of India and Goldman Sachs.

Interesting: LPO IN INDIA REJUVENATED

Provides interesting information though the article is basically a marketing pitch for Praveen Dalal's legal consulting firm Perry4law

News: US companies now outsource legal work to India

List of companies who outsource Legal work to India mentioned in the report are:
Calvin Klein
Universal Pictures
20th Century Fox
HBO
John Wiley and Sons


Also a snippet

India churns out close to 200,000 law graduates every year of which only about 79,000 are English-speaking and hardly 850 get into jobs into top law firms in the country.

News: Indian trade body sets up data protection group

To start with The Data Security Council of India will only be able to certify companies' data security as well as refer breaches to the police. Interestingly DSCI will not have legal powers on its own.

Aptara Launches Legal Process Outsourcing Solution

Quite clearly Aptara is taking advantage of its India presence at Delhi and Pune

Aptara has expanded its offerings to include coding, indexing, tagging and advanced Collection, Forensic and Electronic Discovery (eDiscovery) services. Leveraging state-of-the-art software and certified ISO:9000 facilities, Aptara offers the outsourced advantage of bringing together a worldwide network of high quality professionals and resources resulting in reduced costs and administrative time for legal customers so they can focus on the intricacies of each case. In the U.S. alone, the demand for content related legal services is projected to rise from $1.2B in 2005 to $5.0B in 2010

Aptara, based in US, has offices in ndia, UK and Australia.

Interestingly Aptara has tied-up with IPRO for e-Discovery, review and production technology.

News: Salaries skyrocket in outsourcing cos

It's interesting to note that as India moves up the value chain in outsourcing, the cost of moving to India has also increased.

Fresh graduates (usually MBAs, CAs, engineers, law graduates and so on) with knowledge process offshoring (KPO) and legal process offshoring (LPO) companies are being offered starting packages of Rs 35,000 to Rs 40,000 per month. (1US$ = Rs 41)