Legal Services Outsourced
The optimal legal services best suited for outsourcing vary with each organization. Service outsourcing strategies depend on work structure, existing infrastructure, cultural dynamics, client objectives, business service lines, and many other factors.
Primary Services Outsourced
- Document review, preparation and management services
- Contract review and management services
- Intellectual property search and drafting services
- Legal support and research
- General support functions: including knowledge and data management, general research functions, and customized service solutions
From Fronterion’s observations, outsourced legal services should ideally entail high-volume, routine-oriented tasks. Some niche providers are positioning themselves to handle high-level services, but the most traction remains in the back and middle-office legal support functions.
Service Bundling
The increasing number of back and middle-office support functions at law departments have resulted in more service bundling of legal and other knowledge process outsourcing ("KPO") service functions.
KPO service bundling augments the offshore legal services with general research and data management services. The optimal service opportunities differ with each organization. It’s key to develop the most effective allocation of legal and KPO functions for the overall sourcing strategy.
The clear benefits of bundled services include the ease of a single source solution and the ability to redesign internal workflows for more effective processes. To discover the outsourcing opportunities for your organization, Contact Us.