Back office work such as legal research is now commonly offshored to other countries with India taking the lion’s share. With Indian and other paralegals and legal assistants charging about one third of what Americans in the same profession earn, this is no surprise and many of America’s largest law firms are now taking advantage of this.
So what should a law firm look for when deciding which litigation support company to employ?
Reputation should be a good indicator. It’s hard work building one and a good company should have no hesitation in showing you its lawyers’ resumes, samples of previous work and references.
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Modern medicine is practiced inside a growing and developing system of standards of care, legal rights and obligations, health care financing regulation, and patient protection. As a result, medical care can entail important and momentous legal issues such as malpractice liability, advance directives, confidentiality of medical information and the ability of patients to make health care decisions.

These can be exacting, time consuming and expensive issues. Agencies and lawyers require and expect reports turned around by doctors in shorter and shorter time frames. They will therefore tend to send their work to doctors who can be on top of their waiting times.

Once again, outsourcing, in this case, medico legal transcription services can be the answer, not only saving one time and money but also ensuring more dealings. These services include office notes, clinical notes, private patient letters, patient history and physical reports, clinical reports, medico legal letters, reference letters and reports.

But there is more, much more.
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Every year the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP), presents the Global Outsourcing 100 in Fortune magazine. It features the best leading outsourcing service providers of the day as well as upcoming potential luminaries.
In order to qualify for mention a company must exhibit superiority where growth and size are concerned as in customer experience and management competence to name a few categories.
The Global Outsourcing 100 is a model of excellence in its own right in identifying distinction in outsourcing. This can be attributed to its thorough and scrupulous efforts as well as its meticulous judging procedure.
Managing Director, Thought Leadership, IAOP and chairman of the judges’ panel, Jagdish Dalal was reported as saying, “Getting selected to the Global Outsourcing 100 shows these companies came out on top following a rigorous application process and unbiased competition judged by an independent panel of recognized industry leaders in outsourcing.”
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Here are the details of other Prior Art Searches that could possibly be outsourced:
Trademark Search
A trademark search entails reviewing trademarks with similar marks, and/ or in comparable goods and services, as your own product name.
Technical Literature Search
Technical literature searches involve the review of non-patent documents from computer databases online. These documents may be newspapers, journals, magazines, and other publications
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On March 25, in the presence of its Chairman, Sir Mike Rake, BT Group, Ben Verwaayen, CEO - BT Group and other British Telecommunications executives, the company declared that it would soon be opening a Global Operations Centre at Gurgaon, India.

This Global Operations Centre is expected to employ at least 300 highly skilled professionals. They will run systems and processes for the various BT lines of business besides providing functional support to Group functions such as Legal, HR, Finance, and Procurement.

At the opening, CEO Ben Verwaayen, stated that India was a critical market for the company’s global growth strategy. He remarked upon its supportive government, highly skilled workforce and global competence. “Only companies who recognize and harvest talent on a global basis will achieve a new level of competitive advantage,” he said.

The BT Global Operations Centre is expected to satisfy the company’s present and future resourcing requirements.

This centre has been described as part of BT’s global sourcing strategy in which BT sets up global centers of excellence in various locations in accordance with local talent and expertise. BT already has similar centers in China, Brazil and Hungary.

Besides its global customers, however, BT is also homing in on India’s domestic market with its services. BT Telecom India, a joint venture majority owned by BT, received licenses from the Indian government In February 2007 a joint venture, BT Telecom India was licensed by the Indian government for the operation of both, national and international long-distance services.
According to company sources, BT provides its Indian clients with VPN services employing IP, MPLS and ATM technologies, and also addresses the networked IT service requirements of its multinational customers.

With the company currently accounting for 2 per cent of India’s $50 billion IT and BPO exports, it anticipates sourcing a greater amount in the near future.

Reportedly there are over 40 organizations, in India that provide IP services. These include subsidiaries of multinational companies and third party vendors.

Among the Intellectual Property services that are being offshored to India is Prior Art Searches.

This could be a highly technical and complex matter or it could be a “routine” search. No matter the type, these searches are expected to accurately summarize relevant portions of prior art and save you time.
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Among the rapidly growing number of legal service providers in India, Manthan Services, in Bangalore is one of the best established and largest companies. Taking pride in the fact that the enterprise, started by Mr. Gururaj Potnis who is also the head of the BPO Division, and Mohit Kataria, now director of legal services, in 2003, retained 120 employees earlier , it now boasts of employing360 professionals.
It has customers from across the US (where it works with more than 85 law firms in 30 states), Canada and UK, several of them being Legal 500 firms, and extends Legal, Paralegal and Secretarial services to them.
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If you were a Hawaiian one of the most common words you might use is ‘wiki’ which means ‘faster’. Now, if you are a web visitor you might use the word too, for another reason. One reason the word is used on the net is because you can learn to use the tool very, very quickly.
So what is wiki?
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On March 12 Bill Gates was in Washington to participate in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the United States House Committee on Science and Technology.
Although the committee has no jurisdiction over immigration, Gates could not but discuss immigration and the H-1B visa situation since he believes in the link between American technology competitiveness and American policy on foreign workers.
Pointing out that Microsoft had been unable to hire one-third of the candidates it wished to hire from overseas because of too few H1B visas, he suggested that ‘counterproductive’ US immigration policies should be overhauled so that more people (highly-skilled professionals) could enter the country on these visas.
In response to Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher’s remark about the student from India replacing the job of the American B and C student, Gates argued that it would on the contrary create jobs around the world class engineers and thus create employment for ‘B’ and ‘C’ American students.
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Last month E-Legal World announced that their new multi-language suite of top-tier internet legal services would now be available for the worldwide legal community.
E-Legal World has committed itself to creating superior but user friendly on-line services and products for the legal community. The suite consists of six services of which Live Lawyer is one. Developed by lawyers themselves, as a tool to be used by legal professionals with their clients, it is described as a “Secure Video Conferencing and Client Management System.” It guarantees that it will provide all the tools legal professionals will need to use their time more productively and help cut expenses as well as help legal professionals build more than satisfactory client bases. All it requires to be operative is an Internet connection. Lawyers can also include the secure text chat feature, besides sending and or receiving confidential files privately and securely in the course of an audio/video conference. They can also do this on their own without having to use voice and video.
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