The outsourcing of legal services. Trends, challenges & potential
By: Singh Dharamveer; Marc Jaeger
Publisher: Promoculture
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Luxembourg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9782879748450
Subjects: Legal services; Contracting out
Description: Economic globalization is transforming practically every service sector. The legal industry that has long remained insulated too has not remained untouched by the effects of globalization. The outsourcing of legal services in the past one decade has transformed the legal landscape. Legal outsourcing to India is becoming increasingly popular among U.S. and European law firms and corporations. This book broadly seeks to discuss three main topics surrounding legal process outsourcing (LPO): its emerging trends, the legal challenges it raises and the hitherto unrecognized potential it holds.00Firstly, this book clarifies concepts of LPO and its operating models practiced by U.S. and U.K. law firms and corporations. Secondly, the outsourcing of legal services creates significant challenges for ethics rules including conflict of interests, attorney-client privilege, supervision and fee sharing. Thirdly, this research explores the hidden potential of LPO to improve access to justice.00This book develops an altogether new proposal where Indian LPO professionals could help alleviate the access to justice problem among indigent and low-income populations of the United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. Background; title: pt. II. Legal challenges; title: pt. III. Non-lawyers in the delivery of legal services.