It impossible to believe that anybody in the legal industry wouldn’t know about the growth of the LPO industry in India. But just in case you didn’t……
The BBC have compiled this report…They write:
When you think of out-sourcing to India, you tend to think of call centres and credit card help-lines and rows and rows of young people at computer terminals, carrying out the back office work of banks and financial institutions.
But the outsourcing industry is changing. It’s becoming more sophisticated and is attracting more people with the very best educational qualifications, including those in the legal profession.
"In my final year of law school I made up my mind," says Divya Kohli, manager of legal support services at CPA India, one of the biggest legal out-sourcing companies in the country.
"I wanted to go into a new industry which had a lot of opportunities for a young lawyer."
Tens of thousands of lawyers graduate in India every year and an increasing number are now taking on work from around the world, as companies look to cut costs wherever they can.
"Yes, we expect to benefit from the recession," says Matthew Banks who works in Mumbai for Integreon, a company engaged by the British legal firm Clifford Chance to help set up facilities in India.
Read the full report at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7713814.stm
Also BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) Watch has a small piece on UK firms and LPO In India
http://www.bpowatchindia.com/bpo_news/legal_lpo/november-07-2008/britain_sends_lpo_to_india.html
