I mean is the idea contagious, that this feeling, let’s outsource to India from alpine to aero plane is getting shapes. Is outsourcing to India today more than process of taking some of the services and restructuring them to produce efficiencies. Amidst all the hullabaloo around the world for past few years and especially in US India has it seems carved its brand niche across verticals. CRM is always a hot idea to outsource. And now the country is all set for plethora of high end non CRM and non transaction related service.



The latest on the board is legal outsourcing. But may be the idea is not that new as the process started ten years ago by American law firm Bickel and Brewer. GE has been doing it since 2001. Now there are more than fifty service providers who want to ape the story of their processors.



Broadly there are four categories



1. Law Firm Captives: dedicated centers of international law firms like Lexadigm, Intellevate and NewGalexy.



2.Corporate Captives: In-house legal departments of companies like GE, Cisco, Oracle, Dupont.



3. Third party “niche” vendors: focus on providing only legal services, such as IP PRO, Patent Metrix, Pangea3, Mindcrest and Quislex.



4. Third party Multiservice BPOs: offer offshore legal services along with other services, and include the likes of Evalueserve, Datamatics, WNS and Manthan.



How much a company bluntly should we assume will save on per lawyer? Yes, it’s indeed pretty expensive in US and Europe if you compare with South Asian countries. Did a little bit search on the internet and found that (mostly) a seasoned lawyer with five-six years of experience gets $650-700 per hour, a junior lawyer gets around $350 per hour, what I assume even if an Indian lawyer paid around $650-720 per month you can gauge the business model here. And Indian lawyers it is believed that if imparted proper training will be able to draft patent application, legal research, analyzing and processing ancillary data etc.



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