Wednesday, August 29, 2007

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

Saturday, August 11, 2007

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

Thursday, August 9, 2007

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.