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On the other hand, small and midsize enterprises andlaw firms have just begun to outsource legal work to enjoy these benefits. Thishas become possible with a wider availability of technology at a lower cost, inaddition to the arrival of a new breed of vendors who are addressing the uniquerequirements of small and midsized enterprises and law firms.
These vendors are providing services with betterquality, by leveraging on technology and through deployment of experts in thework which is outsourced. Lawyers fromIndia are increasingly familiar with US law and have several years ofexperience in doing legal work for US law firms and in house legal departmentsof large corporations. It has become possible to deploy experts these days dueto aggregation of work from various clients, and the cascading higher volume ofwork.
The law firms and in house legal departments have enjoyedthe benefits of a quicker turnaround time. The work left with the Indian entityat the end of their day is completed and available when they arrive at work thenext day. These have become as importantas the other core reason for outsourcing, namely saving of costs ? law firmsand enterprises have been able to save between 50 -60% of their cost byoutsourcing legal services.
What work can be outsourced?
Any work that can be done without requiring fact toface interaction with clients or physical presence in a court of law can beoutsourced. Some of the typical examples of work outsourced are in:
a) Contracts:Drafting, Review and management
b) LitigationSupport : Discovery management, review, analysis and coding and Presentation
c) IPRights: Search, Application for patents and defence
d) Legaland Business research
a) Contracts ? Drafting, Review and Management
We prepare first-cut drafts of contracts that are fitfor purpose and conform to your house style. You need to provide:
? Standard templates that conform to your house style and
? Unique variables relating to eachcontract
Your lawyerswould still be in control over the quality of the draft and enforceability incourts of law without having to log expensive time in preparing the first cutdraft.
We can handle a wide variety of contracts includingcontracts for:
? Sale ofsecurities and derivatives
? Sale ofgoods or services
? Sale ormortgage of property
? Leaseof property
? Leaseof equipments
? Employmentetc
We manage your contracts by maintaining acomprehensive database of all your contracts that provide:
? Contract information (Purpose, Period, Entities, Addresses, Counsel,Validity, Termination rights, Applicable law, Jurisdiction etc)
? Summary of terms
? History of notices
We maintain asummary of all obligations and covenants (to facilitate compliance) and allrights (to enforce compliance)
b) Litigation Support
Our litigation support services include:
? Discovery management,
? Review
? Analysis and coding and
? Presentation
To help yourlawyers focus on successfully winning or defending cases.
We help your lawyers to stay focused on winning thecase by providing discovery management support.
Our services include:
? Understanding case issues and priorities
? Determination of collecting strategy
? Determination of work processes to speed up and yet not miss out oncollecting documents
? Quick focus on most useful documents by continuous elimination ofirrelevant items
? Quick analysis of documents for materiality, relevance, confidentialityand privilege; rapid automated
codification and validation
? Quick production of documents to facilitate rapid internalization and access
We can workwith your proprietary document discovery management system or any standardoff-the-shelf solution including ConcordanceFYI ? and CaseLogistix ?.
In spite ofincreasing popularity of e-discovery, physical paperwork has continued to stay.We help your lawyers by reviewing physical paper documents and codifying themfor rapid prioritization and access.
We measureour success by reducing your attorney's document review time and cost. Not justby being more competitive than other providers in discovery process.
c) IP Rights
Our lawyers (supported by domain professionals) cansupport you in
? Prior Art Search,
? Assessment of patentability,
? Patent proofing,
? Invention disclosure evaluation and
? Drafting the application for patents.
We offersupport in IP Asset management with review of potential or existinginfringements and in litigations to protect against such infringements.
d) Legal and Business Research
We conductresearch on industry standard private databases as well as public domaindatabases to provide research support to your team of lawyers to win/defendlitigation or to provide counsel to clients on complex issues.
Our research support includes:
? Reviewing legislation
? Reviewing case law precedence
? Reviewing journals
? Reviewing contracts and
? Preparing summaries and abstracts.
Where to outsource?
Law firms and in house legal departments typicallyoutsource legal work to someone who is willing to understand theirrequirements, and give quality service that they require.
TaurusQuest is one such company, which has acquiredexpertise in serving small and midsize enterprises better, and has beenrecognized for its operational excellence and delighting service. We wereawarded 4th worldwide by the US based Black Book of Outsourcing forone of our services in 2007. We have a number of legal professionals who haveexperience in providing the services mentioned above to US and Internationallaw firms and to business enterprises. The senior executives of the companyhave lived and worked in the US.
TaurusQuest has two delivery centers in Chennai, Indiawith 300 seats. For further details on our company and the services we offer, visitus at and Contact usat