LPO News

A conference has being organised at the Institute for Global Challenges and the Law at the University of California, Berkeley for April 25, 2008 on “The International Outsourcing of the Legal Profession.” It promises to be an exciting event for discussions and conversations on the ins and outs of legal outsourcing.

The list of speakers include the who’s who of the Legal Outsourcing Industry and others. The complete list is available here. The full-day event claims to help discern the need for outsourcing legal work, which would aid you to arrive at an informed decision. You can hear first-hand account from companies considering outsourcing and from those who have had significant interest with outsourcing, as well from Legal Process Outsourcing Consultants (LPOs), and the law and economics faculty at the UC Berkeley.

The panelists will share their experience and the participants would have the opportunity to discuss and engage them in discussion. The following issues will be addressed:

• Why isn’t everyone outsourcing legal work?
• What type of legal work is outsourced and to whom is it being outsourced?
• Who is outsourcing? And what have their experiences been both generally and with regard to outsourcing patent drafting and patent searches?
• What impact will outsourcing have on the elite guild nature of the legal profession and on U.S. employment as a whole?

The agenda of the conference is available here in PDF format. The home page of the conference is available on the School of Law - Boalt Hall’s website. Click here to follow the link.

The conference fees is US $ 150 and registration is now open.