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Indian outsourcing company Mangalam Information Technologies has set up an office in Manchester as it explores the opportunities for legal process outsourcing (LPO) in the UK, including “low hanging fruits” such as personal injury (PI) and conveyancing work. It comes as UK-based LPO providers estimated that they could reduce transactional costs in PI by up to 30%.

Indian legal process outsourcers see “a fat, complacent and profitable market place” in England and Wales “and they want a piece of it”, solicitors were warned last week. Mark Jones, former managing partner of Addleshaw Goddard, described legal process outsourcing as “a game changer for all of us” – 25% of Slaughter and May’s work is outsourceable, as is 50% of his own firm’s and maybe 100% for firms outside the top 50.

Our weekly round-up of other useful news and articles highlights worries that criminals are targeting failing law firms, accountants wanting more of the legal services market, concerns over new conflicts rules, a call to change the terms of PII cover, the need for more ethics guidance around LPO and much more.

In the current economic climate, it is rare to hear of an industry that is said to be booming. However, one sector that is continuously hitting the headlines with record-breaking deals at the moment is the legal process outsourcing sector.

To address a profoundly changing legal landscape, law firms and corporate counsel are exploring new models for delivering legal services. One of the most compelling legal service delivery models will be outsourcing. Here are Fronterion’s Top Ten Trends for Legal Outsourcing in 2010.