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)