In its January issue, the New York Law Journal described legal outsourcing to India as a reality.
Commenting on the decreasing level of resistance to it and the corresponding acceptance of it, the journal put this mainly down to the cost advantage.
“LPO salaries for Indian lawyers are generally well below 10,000 USD a year. By comparison, a US contract lawyer usually earns around 30 USD an hour while associate base salaries at major firms in New York start at 160,000 USD a year,” the journal says.
The report details how companies having already outsourced their work to India have had positive experiences.

Some of the largest Indian law companies feature in the Fortune 500 list and Pangea3, one of the largest, has realized investments to the tune of 12 million dollars in the first three years of its being. On its list are Sequoia Capital and GlenRock Capital, with investments of 7 million USD and 4.4 million USD respectively.
Besides this, certain Indian LPO service providers have now set up services in the United States itself through which they make on-shore services available. One such firm is Quislex, the Hyderabad firm which now works with the American agency, Strategic Legal Solutions to provide these services.
The journal also described what the deal involves for Indian LPOs.
“Aside from office space and computers, the leading companies also have US-trained lawyers working in both India and the US to supervise the work of the Indian staff. They also maintain client development teams to market services to the US companies,” it explains.