LawScribe, Inc., from Los Angeles, having offices in New York and Gurgaon, India has recently, announced that it has secured the approval of its legal outsourcing ethics presentation for MCLE ethics from the State Bar of California.

This will soon be offered to corporate counsel, law firms and legal departments across the country and is expected to cover the ethical, security, and liability risks associated with the outsourcing of higher-value legal work and non-core work abroad.

Kunoor Chopra, LawScribe’s CEO and President, described the progress of the seminar from its initial steps to its realization. “We have always taken great care to ensure that our Indian attorneys are not engaged in the unauthorized practice of law and that our law firm and in-house counsel clients are fully aware of the supervisory responsibilities incumbent upon them in any offshore legal outsourcing relationship,” she is reported to have said.

“This course is based on the domain expertise that we have built up over the last 4 years and the best practices that the leading legal process outsourcing companies, including LawScribe, currently have in place.”

The web-based and in-person seminars will also deal with matters concerning security and confidentiality risks linked to offshore legal outsourcing and possible differences of interest. It is scheduled to also include guidelines about the billing of outsourced work.

According to LawScribe’s Director from the U.K. Mark Ross, LawScribe is probably one of the first LPOs (legal process outsourcing) in the marketplace, if not the only, to receive such certification by any of the State Bar associations.
Hr described it as further evidence of their ongoing commitment to raising standards within the legal process outsourcing industry.