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SDD Global Solutions is a step beyond typical legal process outsourcing or "LPO." With India offices in Mysore and Bangalore, as well as in New York and London, our high-end, off-shored legal services include all types of legal research and analysis, the drafting of commercial contracts and court papers, the handling of all varieties of commercial transactions, as well as almost every type of intellectual property work, including patent, trademark, and copyright searches and applications. We also are the only Indian legal outsourcing provider managed by a U.S. law firm. Supervised by SmithDehn LLP, which is based in New York and London, our clients have included major film and television studios, law firms, retail brands, publishing houses, and manufacturers. We have received funding from the State Bank of India and investors from organizations such as Cisco Systems and Barclays Capital. We are tackling one of the most urgent problems of today's businesses, namely, the inefficiencies of having legal services performed in locations that often are among the most expensive, and the least productive. For a presentation on why your law firm or company should hire us, please click here.

SDD Global is one of only two legal outsourcing companies invited to participate in the GCR Vendor Preferred Pricing Program.
Out of more than 200 legal outsourcing providers across the world, SDD Global Solutions has been ranked among the top 10, for two years in a row. The Black Book of Outsourcing grades vendors on 18 key performance indicators for operational excellence and service delivery, based on client surveys.

        LEGAL RESEARCH
        LEGAL DRAFTING
        PATENT SERVICES
        LITIGATION SUPPORT
        BUSINESS AFFAIRS
        IP REGISTRATIONS
        TRADEMARK/TITLE SEARCHES
        IMMIGRATION VISAS

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    FAQ -- LEGAL PROCESS OUTSOURCING (LPO) OR LEGAL SERVICES OFFSHORING (LSO)  
1. Does legal outsourcing to India lead to a compromise in quality?

No. The offshored legal services we provide in India compare favorably with much of the what attorneys produce at top-tier law firms in the West. It is far beyond typical "legal process outsourcing" or "LPO" work. Our legal services outsourcing is managed on-site by a respected American law firm, and supervised by a team of U.S.-licensed attorneys who have been practicing at the top of their fields. This gives our Western client both quality assurance and accountability. Moreover, when corporations, law firms, and individuals outsource legal services to SDD Global, the work is done by top law graduates and experienced lawyers and/or former law professors from some of the best legal outsourcing companies, law firms and law schools in India. In fact, we hire only one out of every 900 job applicants. And again, those recruits in turn are trained and supervised by respected Western attorneys. Because of the close involvement of Western attorneys in our legal outsourcing model, our clients need not be concerned that their contact will be limited to foreign employees on the other end of the earth.

2. What kind of cost savings can be expected by outsourcing legal services to India?

Outsourcing legal work to India, can result in savings of up to 50% or more.  As The New York Times reported: “The reason for the shift [to outsourcing legal work] echoes the reason companies are sending other work abroad: they save substantial amounts of money. Some companies say they can reduce certain legal costs by as much as 50 percent, and receive work that rivals what they can obtain in the United States.  According to Dennis Archer, the President of the American Bar Association, ‘The need to cut costs reaches across many departments, so it should be no surprise that it goes to the legal department as well.’” 

The financial advantages of legal outsourcing to India that can accrue to the clients of SDD Global are seen not only in the well-known differences between salaries and costs of living among the workforces of the U.S. and India, but also in the price of office space, which is ultimately paid for by a law firm’s clients. Many traditional law firms locate virtually all of their personnel in relatively expensive offices in the largest cities in the United States and the United Kingdom. This tradition has led to a situation in which most of each dollar or pound that these firms charge their clients pays for office rent.  In Mysore, India, the employees of SDD Global work in state-of-the-art facilities at 1/43rd the cost of comparable space in major U.S. cities (and at far lower cost than Indian cities such as Mumbai, Bangalore, and Delhi/Gurgaon). This is a major part of the way we maintain our assurance to clients that they are paying for legal services, not real estate.

3. What is the relationship between the law firm, SmithDehn LLP, and SDD Global Solutions? Do SDD Global attorneys practice law or provide legal advice?

SDD Global is a separate Indian company, which provides services to many law firms. Although attorneys at SDD Global's parent law firm, SmithDehn LLP, play an important role in the management, supervision, and training at SDD Global, the Indian company is not a captive of any one law firm. In addition to providing services to multiple law firms, SDD Global does work for many corporate and other clients who are not clients of SmithDehn LLP. Although SDD Global provides many of the same services of a global law firm, often with both higher quality and lower rates, SDD Global is not a law firm. SDD Global does not "practice law" or provide legal advice. However, in situations where clients need legal advice, or representation in court, or similar services that only a U.S.-licensed attorney can provide, such clients can obtain those services either from SmithDehn or other law firms working with SDD Global. Click here to read the opinions of various U.S. ethics panels on legal outsourcing. These include American Bar Association Ethics Opinion 08-451, which states that (a) "U.S. lawyers are free to outsource legal work, including to lawyers or non-lawyers outside the country, if they adhere to [various] ethics rules," (b) legal outsourcing is "a salutary trend in a global economy," and (c) "outsourcing can reduce client costs and enable small firms to provide labor intensive services such as large, discovery intense litigation, even though the firms might not maintain sufficient ongoing staff to handle the work."

4. In what locations does SDD Global provide legal outsourcing services?

We provide off-shored legal services for companies and law firms in nearly all states and major cities in the United States, as well as in major cities of the United Kingdom and Canada. See the presentations listed below for more information on our work in Los Angeles, California; Manhattan, New York; Chicago, Illinois; Delaware City, Delaware; Wilmington, Delaware; Houston, Texas; Phoenix, Arizona; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; San Antonio, Texas; Dallas, Texas; San Diego, California; San Jose, California; Detroit, Michigan; San Francisco, California; Miami, Florida; Jacksonville, Florida; Indianapolis, Indiana; Austin, Texas; Columbus, Ohio; Fort Worth, Texas; Charlotte, North Carolina; Memphis, Tennessee; Baltimore, Maryland; Boston, Massachusetts; El Paso, Texas; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Denver, Colorado; Seattle, Washington; Nashville, Tennessee; Washington, D.C. (District of Columbia); Las Vegas, Nevada; Portland, Oregon; Louisville, Kentucky; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Tucson, Arizona; Atlanta, Georgia; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Kansas City, Missouri; Fresno, California; Sacramento, California; Long Beach, California; Asheville, North Carolina; West Hollywood, California; Boulder, Colorado; London, England; Bristol, England; Manchester, England; Norwich, England; Vancouver, British Columbia; Toronto, Ontario; and Halifax, Nova Scotia:

Legal Outsourcing in California Helps Hollywood Win Cases
New York Takes Lead in Legal Process Outsourcing
Legal Services Outsourcing Makes a Difference in Illinois
Delaware Companies Take Advantage of Legal Outsourcing
Legal Process Outsourcing Makes a Mark in Texas
Michigan Economy Aided by Legal Services Outsourcing
Florida Law Firms Take Advantage of Legal Process Outsourcing
Ohio Companies Stay Afloat by Off-Shoring Legal Work
Nevada Legal Work Less Costly, Due to Legal Outsourcing
Legal Process Outsourcing Helps Oregon Companies
Kentucky Benefits from Legal Services Outsourcing
Legal Process Outsourcing Has Positive Impact in Missouri
Colorado Law Firms and Companies Aided by Legal Outsourcing
Legal Services Outsourcing Makes a Difference in Maryland
Washington State Takes Advantage of Legal Outsourcing
Legal Process Outsourcing Takes Hold in Washington D.C.

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Sacha Baron Cohen issues public testimonial praising SDD Global Solutions as history-making,"revolutionary" lawyers.

SDD Global makes history: Helps defeat L.A. Libel Suit against "ALI G SHOW;" Helps Win California Court of Appeal Decision in Victory for Comedians and TV and Film Producers Everywhere

SDD Global is the second legal outsourcing company in India allowed to join the General Counsel Roundtable's Vendor Preferred Pricing Program.

SDD Global is pleased to welcome corporate finance attorney Bruce Campbell as a Special Advisor. Bruce is formerly with Hogan & Hartson, one of the world’s largest international law firms, where he worked for six years. In addition to training our lawyers and providing strategic advice, Bruce works with SDD Global on client projects within his areas of expertise. In his ten years of legal practice, he has helped form and finance numerous companies, guiding many early stage corporate clients through mergers, acquisitions and initial public offerings. His intellectual property experience includes representing clients in transactions with some of the most well known names in technology.

SDD Global Makes 2008 Worldwide Top 10 List from The Black Book of Outsourcing.

SDD Global Drafts Motion to Dismiss U.S. Anti-Outsourcing Lawsuit in NMH vs. Bush.

SDD Global adds London and Bangalore offices, and expands capabilities to include international commercial transactions and patent services.

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Click here for "'Big Law' Meets 'The Perfect Storm,'" a full report on the discussion of legal services outsourcing at the March 2010 "Law Firm Evolution" conference at Georgetown Law Center.

SDD Global General Counsel Kwarma Vanderpuye, along with leading figures throughout the legal world, including general counsels from top corporations and organizations such as the World Bank and the New York Federal Reserve Bank, attended the "Legal G20" summit (the Qatar Law Forum) in Qatar on May 29-31, 2009, by special invitation. For more details, click here.

On March 12, 2009, in-house counsel for 20 of the world's largest corporations held a private, invitation-only, summit in New York with partners from 20 major American law firms to discuss ways to reduce the high cost of, while adding value to, legal services. One other organization was invited to participate in the meeting: SDD Global Solutions.

SDD Global co-sponsored the MLRC (Media Law Resource Center) London Conference on International Developments in Libel, Privacy, Newsgathering, and New Media Law, held on October 1-2, 2009. At this two-day event, over a hundred media lawyers from around the world gathered to discuss the latest developments in media law and practice. For further information, please click here.

SDD Global's President spoke on a panel at the 22nd Annual Media and the Law Seminar, co-sponsored by Media/Professional Insurance (now Axis Insurance), a leading provider of liability coverage for film and television companies, newspapers, magazines, and media companies worldwide. Other speakers included our company President's friend, the Hon. Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. For further details, please click here .

"An American Law Student’s Adventures In India’s Legal Outsourcing Industry"   by Doug Mallett

"Starting Your Own LPO? Here's How To Do It. And How Not To."   by Sanjay Bhatia

"EMBATTLED EX-CHAIRMAN / CEO OF FIFTH LARGEST ACCOUNTING FIRM HIRES SDD GLOBAL TO LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD"   by Vidya Devaiah

"INDIA'S NOT-SO-SECRET WEAPON - THE DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND: Why Indian Legal Outsourcing and Similar Industries Have the Potential to Flourish"   by Vidya Devaiah

"Legal Outsourcing Companies and 'Foreign' Law Firms Have Nothing to Fear from Ashurst Decision or Chennai High Court Petition" by Sanjay Bhatia

"The Nuts and Bolts of Legal Process Outsourcing," by Mark W. Heaphy and Sarvesh D. Mahajan.

"Turning to India at Break-Neck Speed," by Richard Susskind, Times Online.

"Despite the Rhetoric, Offshoring Won't Stop," by Dinesh C. Sharma, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.

"The LPO Revolution," by Ben Frumin, India Business Law Journal.

"Corporate Counsel in Peril?" -- India Business Law Journal.

SDD Global Covered in The Washington Post, May 11, 2008 (“U.S. Legal Work Booms in India.”)

Chief Justice of India Unveils Lexis Legal Magazine, with Cover Story Featuring SDD Global.

The American Lawyer: "Maharaja of Media" (how we serve "Hollywood's Elite, from Mysore, India.")

Corporate magazine: "From Manhattan to Mysore, the Legal Way" (how SDD Global is "a new business model for legal outsourcing")

"Legal Process Outsourcing to India: Can It Be Both Efficient and Ethical?" - by Maya Karwande.

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