Legal Process Outsourcing: Trends and Perspectives

Abstract

Legal Process Outsourcing is an area of high value added BPO service involving legal work. LPO is connected with the works of Intellectual Property Rights, like patent search, patent application drafting, trademark and copyright registration, legal research, document review and analysis, contracting and administration, paralegal service, legal transcription etc. The clients of LPO are the in-house legal departments of MNC's etc, outsource from off-shore areas where it is costly to perform. Career prospects are magnificent in the Legal Process Outsourcing industry.

Keywords: legal outsourcing, organisations, IPR, process

JEL Classification: K20