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Pangea3 Ranked #1 Full Service Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) Provider Worldwide

Brown-Wilson Group's prestigious 2007 legal process outsourcing vendor survey recognizes Pangea3's client satisfaction and management excellence.

NEW YORK, Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Pangea3 LLC, the global leader in legal process outsourcing to corporate in-house counsel and U.S. law firms, announced today that it was ranked the foremost legal process outsourcing provider worldwide in the renowned "Black Book of Outsourcing." Pangea3 received the top honors over a pool of 102 legal process outsourcing providers nominated for consideration.

"We are pleased to recognize Pangea3 as the top-ranked legal process outsourcing vendor worldwide," said Douglas Brown, Managing Partner, Brown- Wilson Group and co-author of The Black Book of Outsourcing. "Pangea3 is the number one vendor in this survey because it consistently delivers value to its clients. This ranking is a testament to Pangea3's combination of client commitment, operational excellence and industry leadership."

The prestigious annual independent survey of vendors and advisors, compiled by the Brown-Wilson Group, is the only survey of the outsourcing industry that measures unbiased client satisfaction. The 2007 survey incorporated information from more than 22,000 global clients, outsourcing purchasers, decision makers, contractors and employees. It measured the LPO provider's customer satisfaction and management leadership in categories such as C-level commitment, operational excellence, leadership impact and human capital development.

"We are honored to be voted the best legal process outsourcing provider worldwide. This prestigious achievement underscores Pangea3's commitment to providing superior quality legal support services to law firm attorneys and corporate in-house counsel. In the last year we have increased value to our clients by increasing the number of senior U.S. attorneys in Mumbai to oversee operations, by developing and adding to our delivery leadership team and by increasing our capabilities with new state-of-the-art facilities in Mumbai and hiring additional top lawyers, scientists and legal professionals," said David Perla, Co-CEO of Pangea3. "I would like to thank Pangea3's managers for their leadership and direction and our dedicated employees who consistently provide world-class service and superior quality work to our clients, helping them increase efficiency while maintaining confidentiality and data security."

Included in the categories where Pangea3 ranked highly are client relationships, trust, support and customer care, reliability and vendor overall preference.

The top ten legal process outsourcing vendors for 2007 appear in the following table:

Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) Vendors

  1. Pangea3
  2. Integreon
  3. Quislex
  4. Law-Scribe
  5. Mindcrest
  6. Law Wave
  7. AtlasLegal
  8. Ius Juris
  9. Lexadigm
  10. NeoWorth LPO

Lata Setty Promoted to Senior Vice President, Intellectual Property and Patent Litigation

Pangea3 is pleased to announce the promotion of Lata Setty to Senior Vice President of Intellectual Property and Patent Litigation. She will oversee client care and business development in Pangea3's intellectual property and patent litigation division. Setty recently held the position of Vice President of Intellectual Property and Patent Litigation. She continues to report to David Perla, Co-CEO.

"Lata has been instrumental in building Pangea3, and in the strategic development of the intellectual property and patent litigation division," said Perla. "Throughout her tenure at Pangea3, she has exhibited strong leadership skills, keen operational insight and a talent for business development. Under her guidance, the intellectual property and patent litigation division has developed a loyal client base and a dynamic leadership and delivery team."

Setty joined Pangea3 in 2004 as part of the founding team. Prior to joining Pangea3, she brought more than ten years of experience in patent law across a wide spectrum of intellectual property services, from enforcing patents through patent litigation to maximizing revenue generated by monetizing patent assets.

Pangea3's robust intellectual property and patent litigation team is comprised of full-time Mumbai and Delhi-based lawyers, scientists and engineers with deep domain expertise who provide patent drafting, patent litigation, patent analytics, IPAM and competitive intelligence services.

"I am thrilled to assume this new position at a critical time in Pangea3's growth and look forward to leveraging my technical, legal and leadership skills, to take Pangea3 to the next level," said Setty. "I am honored to work with a highly talented team of patent professionals, engineers and scientists, drawing upon their confluence of technical and patent expertise to produce excellent work product to our Fortune 500 corporate clients and AmLaw 100 law firm client base. In my new role, I will continue to work with our patent division in both protecting and maximizing the value of cutting-edge technologies for Pangea3's clients -- to provide innovative and cost savings solutions executed flawlessly."

Before joining Pangea3, Setty served as a patent litigator at Fish & Neave, LLP, Kaye Scholer, LLP, and Robins Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, LLP. She was also in-house counsel at The View Group, a venture capital fund. She is licensed to practice in the state of Minnesota.

Shelly Dalrymple Appointed Vice President Legal Services (India)

Pangea3 also announced today that Shelly Dalrymple has been named Vice President -- Legal Services (India). She will report to Sanjay Kamlani, Co- CEO, and will be resident in Pangea3's Mumbai offices. Dalrymple will work with Marilyn Primiano and Antony Alex, both serving as Vice Presidents of Legal Services (India), in Mumbai to manage Pangea3's litigation, document review and e-discovery services.

"We're pleased to add Shelly to our robust management team in Mumbai. She is an exceptionally strong litigator with excellent qualifications," said Dan Savitt, Vice President Litigation and Legal Research. "Shelly brings extensive document review and e-discovery experience to this critical position in Mumbai, in addition to comprehensive trial preparation skills. We are confident that our attorney's in Mumbai will gain a tremendous amount of experience working and training under Shelly. We are excited to welcome Shelly."

A successful litigator, Dalrymple brings over 15 years of trial and trial preparation experience to this position. Prior to joining Pangea3, she was a partner at Eldridge, Cooper, Steichen & Leach, PLCC, a boutique trial law firm located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, specializing in national products liability and employment law defense. Her practice often involved managing all phases of multi-state class action and other complex litigation, including tasks such as document review, legal research and court appearances.

Prior to joining Eldridge, Cooper, Steichen & Leach, PLCC, she was a litigation partner at Doerner, Saunders, Daniel & Anderson, LLP, where she developed her practice in complex and multi-state commercial, antitrust and employment litigation.

Dalrymple received her B.A. from Dickinson College and her J.D. from the George Washington University Law School. She is licensed to practice in Oklahoma and regularly practiced before the Northern, Eastern and West Districts of Oklahoma and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.

"I am extremely excited about the opportunity to join Pangea3's Mumbai team," said Dalrymple. "I look forward to the many opportunities associated with this challenging position and to exposing our lawyers even further to American legal practices and expectations. Legal process outsourcing is revolutionizing the legal industry and Pangea3 is at the forefront, reducing costs and driving value to in-house counsel and law firms."

About Pangea3 LLC
Pangea3 is the recognized global leader in legal process outsourcing (LPO), providing outsourced legal, patent and IP technical support services to U.S. corporations and law firms. The company combines top talent -- lawyers, engineers and technologists in the U.S. and India -- with a secure global technology infrastructure in order to provide low-cost, high-quality legal support services to a global client base. Pangea3 is headquartered in New York City and Mumbai, India. For more information, visit http://www.pangea3.com/


About The Black Book of Outsourcing
The Black Book of Outsourcing (Wiley Publishers) is an international business book and outsourcing resource manual written by co-authors Doug Brown and Scott Wilson of the Brown-Wilson Group. The survey solicits information from more than 100,000 global outsourcing users, decision makers, analysts, employees and customers to compile the industry's only independent and unbiased ranking of outsourcing provider organizational performance. These rankings are esteemed by outsourcing clients, prospects, and corporate procurement officers. For additional information, visit http://theblackbookofoutsourcing.com/

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