Legal offshoring is a modern business model embraced by many law firms and corporate in-house counsel in Oregon and across the United States. These progressive attorneys see significant improvements in their efficiency, and in their bottom line. American Bar Association President Dennis Archer says, "The need to cut costs reaches across many departments, so it should be no surprise that it goes to the legal department as well."

Over the years, many attorneys and clients in Portland and other cities in Oregon have adopted the legal outsourcing trend, cutting costs up to 50% and more. Legal outsourcing service providers like SDD Global Solutions can really make a difference in both cost and results.


The advantages of legal process outsourcing-

• a) Price: Outsourcing to India is about five times less expensive than relying exclusively on the services of a large law firm in the US;
• b) Time: Due to the time difference, Indian attorneys can turn work around overnight;
• c) Language: Indian attorneys, especially at SDD Global, are well versed in English and this makes for easy communication and understanding.

Since its formation in 2006, SDD Global has provided legal outsourcing services for many companies, individual clients and law firms throughout the United States and the United Kingdom. SDD Global is in fact a step beyond typical "legal process outsourcing" or "LPO." SDD Global provides services that involve high-end legal research, analysis, contract review and drafting, development of legal strategies, drafting of complaints, answers/objections, legal briefs and memoranda and preparing motion papers, in U.S. litigation. We also provide a wide range of other services that include organizing client files, managing the online electronic court-filing of litigation papers, trademark searches, title searches, securities law research, mortgage deals and filing of copyright and patent applications.

The legal research teams at SDD Global are fully trained by U.S. and U.K. attorneys. The trained Indian lawyers in our Mysore office can provide the same or better services as a U.S.-licensed attorney, except for offering legal advice and appearing in court.

SDD Global was hired to do a multi-state surveys concerning the legal feasibility of various Hollywood films and to determine which state in the U.S., including Oregon, has the most favorable law for the purpose of preventing and defeating potential claims for a large media client. We conducted and supervised extensive research of state and federal law with regard to all conceivable causes of action that might be brought by various potential claimants. The teams researched possible claims such as fraud, wire and mail fraud, breach of rights of publicity, intrusion (including use of hidden cameras), false light, invasion of privacy, intentional or negligent infliction of emotional distress, trespass, breach of contract, defamation, deceptive business or trade practices, tortious interference, copyright infringement, prima facie tort, and wrongful death. Our research included case law, statutes, treatises, handbooks, and other materials.

The American Bar Association in its August 5, 2008 Ethics Opinion 08-451, states that (a) "U.S. lawyers are free to outsource legal work, including to lawyers or nonlawyers 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." Click here to read the opinions of various U.S. ethics panels on legal outsourcing.

Furthermore, the ABA has also stated that, "outsourced tasks range from the use of a local photocopy shop for the reproduction of documents, to the retention of a document management company for the creation and maintenance of a database for complex litigation, to the use of a third-party vendor to provide and maintain a law firm's computer system, to the hiring of a legal research service to prepare a 50-state survey of the law on an issue of importance to a client, or even to the engagement of a group of foreign lawyers to draft patent applications or develop legal strategies and prepare motion papers in U.S. litigation."

According to the Oregon State Bar and Portland Business Journal, "the median hourly rate in Oregon is $230 per hour and the average attorney bills 123 hours per month." Many of the law firm offices in Portland are located in expensive areas where the rent for office space is very high, and is usually indirectly charged to the clients. SDD Global charges only for the services provided, and rent for office space is about 43 times less in Mysore than in Portland. The lower cost of living in India also allows SDD Global to keep its operating costs down and offer value for money to its clients in Portland and elsewhere.

SDD Global has teams of confident lawyers whose primary goal is their client's satisfaction. Following effective team protocols, our team members deliver quality work and meet all deadlines. SDD Global is steered by expert U.S. and U.K. lawyers who have trained the Indian team members to have extraordinary analytical skills, and to ber well-versed in all relevantlegal areas, and to have an excellent command over the English language. All in all, SDD Global provides top-tier, cost-effective services to its clients around the clock, making a basic and positive difference in both cost and result in Portland, and throughout Oregon.