Globalisation of Commodification: Legal Process Outsourcing and Indian Lawyers

Legal Complexity and Lawyers’ Benefit from Litigation

This paper examines the interest of lawyers as a group in the level of legal complexity, assuming that lawyers prefer the level of legal complexity that maximizes their total income. I focus on aspects of the law that are the same across all cases in a particular legal field, such as the rule determining whether the defendant is liable or guilty, the rules of procedure, and the scope of damages...

The Legality of State Protectionist Laws Against Legal Process Outsourcing

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 326 I. HISTORY AND BACKGROUND OF LPO ....................................... 327 A. Evolution of Outsourcing .................................................... 327 B. Growth of LPO Industry ..................................................... 329 C. Risks and Benefits of LPOs .....................

E-law Module Supporting Lawyers in the Process of Knowledge Discovery from Legal Documents

E-law module is the web application which works mainly as the set of information retrieval and extraction tools dedicated for the lawyers. E-law module consists of following tools: (1) document search engine; (2) context oriented search engine plugin; (3) legal phrase oriented machine translation; (4) document metatagger; (5) verdict finder. Machine translation, document meta-tagger and verdict...

"Lawyers for Lawyers": The Emerging Role of Law Firm Legal Counsel

What Do Chinese Lawyers Want? Political Values and Legal Practice

Using data from a national survey we conducted in 2009 of about 1,500 lawyers and non-lawyers working in China’s legal system, we measure the political values of Chinese lawyers, compare them to various reference populations, and identify some of their sources. We find that, on the whole, Chinese lawyers are strongly inclined toward political reform, attach far greater importance to political r...