New test to push India`s legal process outsourcing industry

[OhioChick]

New Delhi, April 17: The nascent legal process outsourcing (LPO) industry in India is set for a quantum leap with the introduction of a new Global Legal Professional (GLP) certification test for law graduates in the country.

The test, an initiative of the LPO industry, seeks to provide a standard measure of skills and knowledge required for the industry in India, which is expected to be worth USD 2 billion by 2015.

Developed by three top LPO companies in the country - JuriMatrix, Bodhi Global and QuisLex - the GLP will test candidates on English fluency, technology and professional skills, personal effectiveness and legal knowledge.

"This test will help the LPO industry employ quality staff from the 80,000 law graduates India produces every year," said Sachin Malhan, chairman of Rainmaker, a leading recruitment firm focussed exclusively on the legal industry.

"When the test is held this year, we expect a boom in the LPO industry in the next year and a half," he said, adding the first of these tests, every six months, will be held in September 2007 at various centres across the country.

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=366284&ssid=54&sid=BUS

[varun]

1. Lawyers will be outsourced

maybe that will be good for US.

[ieoeja]

2. And yet, India bans non-Indian law firms from practicing in their country. n/t