After KPOs and the BPOs, now it’s the turn of the LPOs who will be the next tirade in the years to come. While LPO is the new buzzword creating a sensation across various countries, it has driven the maximum attention from India due to the large number of law students sucked out of the Indian law schools.
As Legal Process Outsourcing may refer to the off shoring of the legal processes by the law firms to its offshore clients, Legal Process Outsourcing firms may perform variety of functions including legal research work, software licensing agreement, document conversion, application drafting, client advice etc.
While the processes involving legal research and the patent application drafting may be called a “high value work”, other services rendered by the lawyers may be called as the non-core and the “low-value work”.
