I was sitting in Starbucks, working, when a study buddy of mine brought it up. He said someone told him about a company that does LPO, and that he heard the LPO’s employees actually get paid more than associates in law firms. He said it was a pretty good deal, considering digesting U.S. cases, making contracts and doing research was basically your job description. Confused, I asked him what an LPO was, and he told me: Legal Process Outsourcing, a.k.a. Offshoring.When I got home I was still curious, and a bit confused, so I looked it up online. Apparently LPO refers to the practice of a law firm or corporation in obtaining legal support services from an outside law firm or legal support services company, oftentimes abroad. I read that LPO service providers in India and the Philippines have gained a lot of success by providing services such as document review, legal research and writing, drafting of pleadings and briefs, and patent services outsourcing. One of the major concerns, though, is the potential breach of client confidentiality. Another is that the people performing legal work in different countries are not bound by the same ethical standards attorneys are subject to at home.
LPO, when I thought about it, kind of brought to mind a law-firm-slash-call-center type of business, and it kind of drives home the thought that almost everything can be done through the internet now.
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5 comments:
My supervising lawyer Atty. Buenaseda is actually involved in this. She makes a sideline drafting pleadings for a New York Law firm. Internet lang puhunan. Best of all, she gets to take care of her young kids.
Alternative racket for those who do not want to be slave-driven by big law firms.
I almost got involved in this also. Before I got my first job, I applied for a BPO firm in Ortigas. They were looking for "paralegals", so to speak. The job description is "contract abstraction", i.e., we were supposed to review and make summaries/abstract of thousands of lease contracts of the BPO firm's clients (I think that time, the client was T mobile). Mind you, the firm was very efficient. They have a computer program specifically designed for that purpose. Then, after namen ma-abstract yung contract, it will go through another screening para sure na error-free.
I didn't last after 2 days of probation period hehe. Ang sakit sa mata kasi nagbabasa ka lang sa pc all day.
i like this idea of LPO. not to underestimate the workload that goes with it, but i think i can do a lot more in life if this will be my sort of "law practice" hehe.. or additional income if it's on the side lang.
Hi,
FYI, LPO is just an option foreign lawyers and companies have these days to save their money. Cost cutting is the driving force behind the LPO industry as the service seekers can very easily save up to 50% of their money as far as the paralegal and other legal support jobs are concerned.
A good LPO always takes care of all the issues like Client Confidentiality, Data Security and following all the industrial norms and Ethical Standards and i guess the reason behind the growth of LPO industry. All in all the Industry has grown almost triple in size within a span of last 3 years.
I am also working for an LPO called "Choir de Law Pvt Ltd" wherein we provide Litigation Support and Contract Drafting and Abstraction services among others in our bouquet of services. For more information you can visit our website http://choirdelaw.com.
Feel free to get in touch with me on d.gupta@choirdelaw.com.
Devesh Gupta
BDM
Choir de Law Pvt Ltd
to be fair, may nagcomment na hindi natin classmate. as a business-minded person, i think when i'm 30, i'll setup an LPO! hmmm.
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