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• LPO UnitedLex co-founder sells share to VCs with Amarchand, IndusLaw for $16m

  Aug 05 2011 Induslaw clients Helion Venture Partners, Canaan Partners and Sequoia Capital have bought an 18.1 per cent stake in legal process outsourcing (LPO) company UnitedLex... more

• Australian judge warns of the rise of legal process outsourcing

  Jan 31 2011 Respected jurist Chief Justice Jim Spigelman, of the New South Wales Supreme Court in Australia, has warned Australian commercial lawyers that outsourcing legal... more

• Outsourcing industry growing at 20-30 % per year

  Dec 22 2010 Legal outsourcing can still be described as small. Of the $180 billion that Americans spend annually on legal services, only about $1 billion goes to outsourcers. But... more

• Thomson Reuters boost LPO capability with acquisition of Pangea3

  Nov 19 2010 Pangea3’s has been fully acquired by Thomson Reuters, in a move that may prompt other legal process outsourcing (LPO) providers to follow suit. According to... more

• Thomson Reuters to acquire LPO Pangea3 for up to $40m in a strategic buy

  Nov 18 2010 Thomson Reuters is in advanced talks to buy legal process outsourcing (LPO) company Pangea3, according to Business Standard and Legally India sources . The... more

• LPO acquisition: UnitedLex acquires LawScribe

  Nov 18 2010 UnitedLex has stated through a press release that the company has acquired the Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) firm LawScribe, based in Los Angeles, California with... more

• Bad times ahead for LPOs? US matches Indian call centre costs

  Aug 19 2010 Call centre workers are becoming as cheap to hire in the US as they are in India, according to the head of the country’s largest business process outsourcing company.... more

• Re-upped Round up August 5: LPOs in India drawing talent from abroad

  Aug 05 2010 The New York Times reports on how the Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) in India is drawing legal talent from abroad. Christopher Wheeler, an Assistant Attorney... more

• Wipro to provide LPO services to Microsoft

  Jun 21 2010 Wipro Technologies, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) division has entered into a partnership with Microsoft Corporation to provide global Legal Process Outsourcing... more

• More top UK law firms look at outsourcing options

  Nov 23 2009 Legal Week reports that eight firms within the top 30 already carry out some form of LPO, including Allen & Overy, Eversheds, Lovells, Pinsent Masons, Wragge & Co and... more

• Allen & Overy first magic circle firm to outsource legal work

  Nov 19 2009 Allen & Overy has become the first magic circle firm to outsource legal work, partnering with LPO provider Integreon to outsource basic litigation document review to... more

• Simmons goes live with outsourcing project

  Oct 17 2009 Simmons & Simmons has launched an innovative legal process outsourcing (LPO) scheme, six months after pinpointing LPO as a key part of its strategy. Under a... more

• Slaughter and May in outsourcing talks

  Oct 06 2009 Slaughter and May is eyeing a radical move into legal process outsourcing (LPO), as top UK law firms face mounting pressure from clients to save costs. The arrival... more

• Clifford Chance outsources 12,000 hours of work to India

  Oct 02 2009 Clifford Chance passed 300 deals - 12,000 hours of work - to its service outside Delhi in the last financial year, the equivalent level that would be done by seven... more

• Rio Tinto moves legal work from Linklaters, Baker & McKenzie to India

  Jun 29 2009 Rio Tinto is moving work away from its high-priced legal teams at Linklaters and Baker & McKenzie in favour of a more cost-effective team in India. The move is... more

• Pinsent Masons outsources litigation work to South Africa

  Jun 24 2009 Pinsent Masons has signed an outsourcing deal which will see the UK firm send litigation work to Cape Town, South Africa. more

• Law firms fuel India's legal process outsourcing industry

  Feb 02 2009 India’s legal process outsourcing (LPO) industry, which generated revenues of $225m in 2007, is expected to grow by 40 per cent in 2008. According to Indian-based... more

• Legal outsourcing to India and China surges in financial crisis

  Oct 17 2008 Legal process outsourcing (LPO) is shining amid the market turmoil, as law firms seek to cut down on costs by outsourcing work to offices in China and India... more

• US meltdown prompts Indian LPOs to step up hiring

  Sep 29 2008 At a time when the off-shoring industry is plagued with instances of employee lay-offs, companies providing legal process outsourcing (LPO) services are on a hiring... more

• Young Indian lawyers returning to domestic legal firms

  Jul 07 2008 In a reversal of trend, young lawyers, who earlier queued up to join the Legal Process Outsourcing (LPOs) outfits in search of fatter pack packets, are returning to... more

• Indian legal offshore biz up as US slumps

  May 21 2008 Bad times for some American companies is turning into good times for India’s legal offshoring industry. For reasons largely economic and partly cultural, India’s... more

• American Companies and law firms outsource legal competencies to India

  Apr 28 2008 Why pay a lawyer at a North American firm $250 an hour or more, when you can pay an Indian lawyer $50 an hour to do the same work? Legal process outsourcers (LPOs) are... more