What’s not widely known is that, increasingly, more and more legal process outsourcing (LPO) is being brought on-shore – no longer just to India or other off-shore locations. Instead of Mumbai or Manila, LPO service providers are opening offices in domestic locales like Austin, Texas and Fargo, North Dakota.
A 2013 survey of legal outsourcing conducted by Corporate Counsel revealed that corporate legal departments surveyed tended to favor outsourcing legal work, with 65% of those indicating they used mainly domestic vendors.
That said, off-shore outsourcing of legal services is still generally more competitively priced than staying stateside. As a result, some law firms and legal departments are experimenting with a “hybrid” approach to outsourcing both on-shore and off-, in order to capitalize on foreign-based pricing while keeping some more sensitive legal matters within U.S. borders.
As if to replicate the time-honored tradition of high-powered law firms working around the clock to meet deadlines, the on-shore/off-shore blended model enables LPO vendors to do just that.