Legal process outsourcing has made an impact in Washington D.C., where a federal lawsuit, designed by a U.S. law firm to place roadblocks in the way of the fast-growing legal services outsourcing industry in India, was dismissed after Indian lawyers fought back. This dismissal was a victory not only for offshore legal service providers, but also for any U.S. law firm with offshore offices. SDD Global Solutions, the only high-end legal outsourcing company in India managed by a U.S. law firm, successfully prepared a motion to dismiss and the supporting legal brief. SDD Global has highly qualified and innovative legal teams who serve clients around the clock, offering off-shore legal services, making a basic and positive difference in both expense and result.

In other Washington D.C.-related work, our lawyers conducted a 50-state survey, which included Washington D.C., regarding enforceability of consent agreements and "door closing statutes," for one of the biggest media companies in the U.S.

SDD Global provides many of the services of a global law firm, often with both higher quality, and always at lower rates. Of course, since we are not a law firm, we do not provide legal advice or representation in court. But we do work with progressive law firms to help give their clients better value for their money. The hourly rate for the India attorneys at SDD Global is five or six times less than the rates of attorneys in Washington D.C., which range from approximately $300 to $600 an hour. We also often work on a flat fee basis depending on the project and the needs of the client. In addition, since SDD Global is located in Mysore, India, where the cost of office space is dramatically lower than the cost of office space in Washington D.C. In Mysore, the cost of living also is low, and the cost of doing business is also low. All of the above allows SDD Global to significantly reduce costs for clients.


Services Provided by Litigation Support Attorneys at SDD Global

In accordance with the codes of professional conduct and ethics governing the practice of law in the United States and the United Kingdom, the lawyers of SDD Global, who are not licensed in the U.S. or the U.K. and do not provide U.S. or U.K. legal advice , provide streamlined, creative, and results-oriented litigation support, performing a multitude of research, drafting and other tasks that can be done in India and supervised by our U.S. licensed attorneys, faster and at a fraction of the cost.

The services involve high-end legal research, analysis, contract review, 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 services that include organizing client files, managing the online electronic court-filing of litigation papers, trademark searches, title searches, securities laws, 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 teams handle legal research in virtually any jurisdiction or area of the law. Already the teams have handled projects involving intellectual property (including copyrights, trademarks, trade dress, etc), defamation and invasion of privacy, rights of publicity, anti-piracy litigation, entertainment law, trade secrets employment and labor law, general civil areas such as fraud and contract law, litigation procedure, state and federal statutes, multi-jurisdictional comparison surveys, and factual research, including financial, corporate and other data.

In litigation matters, SDD Global lawyers enforce and strengthen their clients' positions before litigation begins. Interlocutory litigation papers and other documents are drafted with speed and efficiency. These include pleadings, discovery requests or responses, subpoenas, motion papers, memoranda of law, settlement agreements or trial preparation documents.

Though trial preparations are an inherently laborious and expensive process, the work done efficiently and faster by our lawyers dramatically reduces the cost to the client. Case management tasks necessary in all lawsuits like organizing client files, managing the online electronic court-filing of litigation papers, and maintaining and monitoring case-watch reports for changes and updates in cases are performed effectively by the SDD Global legal support teams.

Experienced and trained SDD Global lawyers draft legal documents with proper citations. They also expeditiously draft other materials like legal briefs and memoranda; discovery requests and responses; appeal papers (including notices and briefs); petitions for certiorari; summaries of witness statements; deposition digests; print, videotape, and animation exhibits for trials; any other litigation papers; employment manuals; licenses and other contracts.

The American Bar Association (ABA) 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."

Furthermore, the ABA panel decided that "there is nothing unethical about a lawyer outsourcing legal and nonlegal services," as far as the services to the client are provided with the "legal knowledge, skill, thoroughness and preparation reasonably necessary for the representation," and the outsourcing lawyers satisfy their professional obligations. Accordingly, the ABA panel, far from standing in the way of legal off-shoring, has embraced it, with mostly common sense caveats that are no impediment to this growing trend.

SDD Global has been ranked among the top 10 legal outsourcing providers across the world for two years in row. In fact, SDD Global Solutions is a step beyond "legal process outsourcing" or "LPO." In several ways (except for the price), we are the functional equivalent of a top-tier global law firm.