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Pangea3 offers an exciting alternative career option for Lawers and Engineers - The New Indian Express
Coupled with technology and globalisation, India is fast becoming a hub for legal services outsourcing, sanjay Kamlanif co-founder & co-ceo, Pangea3 LLC speaks with career on the choices before incumbents.
1. Could you provide a brief on legal services outsourcing?
The market today defines the term legal outsourcing broadly to include any service that entails supporting the working of corporate legal departments, large law firms and even individual lawyers in different parts of the world by performing any of the following activities which range from secretarial to paralegal to lawyer functions:
- Word processing of legal documents
- Litigation support-document scanning, conversion, and objective coding
- Legal forms processing-mortgage document forms, regulatory filings
- Drafting contracts
- Online research
- Reviewing, analyzing and reporting on documents
- Intellectual property researching (.technical studies and analysis)
- Drafting and applying for patents (patent prosecution)
2.What is the sphere of activities of Pangea3?
Pangea3 delivers state-of-the-art seamless, high-end outsourced legal and related technical services for law firms and in-house counsels. We are lawyers, scientists and engineers in India operating through a secure telecommunications and technology platform to deliver highly professional work product at radically lower costs and greatly increased process efficiency.
3.Who can be a part of legal services outsourcing?
Unlike most other BPO-type operations - is an extremely high-end area of outsourcing. It takes very specific skill sets to be a part of our professional industry. At Pan we hire a combination of law professionals engineers and scientists with varying levels of technical experience and leadership responsibility. In the IP/Patent BPO arena, engineers typically dominate the workforce. At Pangea3 we-have a healthy mix of domain specialists i.e. lawyers as well as engineers to work together on both the legal and technical side of the patent prosecution and litigation process as well as patent value maximization through patent valuation analysis and license/royalty fee negotia¬tion and drafting,.
4.What sort of talent pool is Pangea3 looking for?
Although the relevant qualifications in the legal and engineering streams is a must, what we value most in prospective employees is a passion for their chosen pro¬fessions, the ambition to grow, a desire to be the best and a drive to build a company. We look for self-starters and highly motivated professionals - lawyers and scientists. We empower all of our employees to succeed in new and challenging ways, and passion and commitment are the most important qualities we seek in candidates. We look to offer our employees the optimal career with a premier company that gives them a never-before exposure to clients and the international legal market. In return we expect candidates to look to Pangea3 as a career and not a job.
5.What is the luring process at Pangea3?
We work primarily through a recruiting Finn. We also recruit on-line through Monster.com, Naukri.com. The screening and interview process is very competi¬tive. To give you a good sense, out of about 700 resumes in one screening exercise, we telephone interviewed 150 of those candidates, and called in about 30 for in personal interviews. We ultimately extended 15 offers of which 12 were accepted.
6.Brief on the on-job training regime in Pangea3?
At Pangea3, we believe that the best way to learn is to get hands-on with the work. Our team comprises of pro¬fessionals who are well versed in the legal and engineer¬ing industries already. However, we provide on-the-job training to make sure they are able to acclimatize them¬selves to the U.S. work culture as well as on the finer nuances of the job at hand.
Most importantly however, we provide our team the opportunity and training to get acquainted with the client from day one and deal with them directly. In a sense, we empower them to take on work that they would not have had the opportunity for in their tradi¬tional professional options.
7.How do you see the growth and development of these services in India?
According to a study done by Snapdata Research, the US legal market revenues in 2003 were in the region of US $197 billion. Research done by Hilderbrandt International, estimates that the worldwide spending on legal outsourcing comprising Litigation Support, Legal Research and Patent Prosecution alone will touch US $6.5 billion by 2006.
More interestingly, Forrester Research predicts that about 35.000 US lawyer jobs will move to low-cost coun¬ tries such as India by 2010.- This ntimber is expected to touch 79,000 US lawyer jobs by 2015. Presumably most of this will come to India. A study done by Euromonitor International reveals that the U.K. market for legal services has grown by 3.6% between 2002 and 2003 to reach a value of £19 billion (US$34.2 billion).
