Legal process outsourcing is a small but growing segment of the global legal industry. Globalization, technological advances, changing attitudes toward the outsourcing of legal services, pressure to reduce costs and a shortage of skilled labor are forcing organizations to consider alternatives to running costly in-house business processes. Outsourcing is a strategic solution that can address these challenges effectively and provide a compelling value proposition.

Historically, the outsourcing of legal services by lawyers and paralegals has been considered a cost reduction strategy wherein low-value work was shipped off to developing countries to take advantage of labor arbitrage. As offshore outsourcing has taken hold within the legal industry, however, a higher level of domain expertise has been developed in outsourcing centers such as the Philippines, allowing law firms to outsource increasingly sophisticated and higher-level processes overseas. Many firms have also found that working with one provider for legal resources as well as back office and marketing staff, has further improved efficiency and reliability while allowing them to make deep cuts in their overhead.

Legal Process Outsourcing in the Philippines

At Sourcefit, we provide offshore legal staffing solutions to law firms, attorneys, legal departments, and private and public organizations in all industries. We offer a full range of managed and comprehensive services using custom and flexible service delivery models. Our clients benefit from our domain expertise, state-of-the-art infrastructure, and best-in-class processes. Because every aspect of our operation is guided by our metrics of excellence, we ensure that your offshore legal professionals function as a seamless extension of your local team.

Sourcefit legal personnel are experienced in multiple practice areas, including compliance, employment, M&A due diligence, litigation support, environmental, securities, class action and antitrust. Our industry domain expertise encompasses contact centers, insurance, healthcare, biotech and pharmaceutical, government, banking and finance, manufacturing, energy, commodities, higher education and more. Sourcefit legal staff also perform core activities such as litigation support, enterprise-level contract management, lease management, legal research and intellectual property services. Our recruitment specialists have access to deep industry networks, reducing time-to-fill and matching talent to the job much more quickly.

Outsourced Legal Staffing Benefits

Cost efficiency. The need to improve cost efficiency reaches across legal departments. Companies can reduce certain legal costs by 50 percent while gaining high-quality services through the hiring of low-cost, skilled offshore talent. Offshore workers can perform judgment-based legal services and functions with results that rival what North American, European, and Australian companies can obtain locally.

Improved focus. Outsourcing frees up onshore personnel to spend more time on higher value activities. While your local team is working on mission-critical tasks, your offshore team takes care of the details. Working with teams in different time zones also offers round-the-clock advantages for both onshore attorneys and clients.

Shorter implementation time. A legal services provider like Sourcefit can reduce implementation time and capital costs because it offers companies better flexibility and scalability. The use of offshore personnel extends our clients’ bandwidth capabilities to reduce turnaround time for urgent legal projects. Your offshore team can work at night and have a project ready by the time your local team gets to the office.

Top-level talent. The Philippines has a growing pool of highly trained and motivated legal workers. By working with Sourcefit, our clients access high-level talent and niche expertise quickly at the lowest industry prices. We hire only the most qualified legal professionals and admin staff, so that your customers can receive the same level of quality that they’ve come to expect. Small firms can fill in competency gaps, while larger, more established firms can tap into global expertise.