Legal process outsourcing definition

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Disclosure—reviewing the documents

GeneralThe process involves reviewing the collated documentary evidence on your client’s side and deciding which of those documents should be disclosed. To do this effectively means having in place:•strategies to limit the scope of documents to be reviewed•a review team•targets for the review team•the right tools for the job•communication with the clientThis Practice Note relates to a party’s disclosure obligations under CPR 31 and does not cover the provisions of the disclosure scheme operating in the Business and Property Courts. For guidance, see: Disclosure scheme—overview.For guidance on some of the terminology used in this Practice Note, refer to Practice Note: Disclosure—technical glossary.Strategies to limit the scope of documents to be reviewedSome of these issues you will already have discussed with your client and the other parties, for instance the extent of the reasonable search, and how the quantity of electronically stored information (ESI) can be reduced with the use of keyword searches, use of date ranges and custodians. See Practice Notes: Disclosure—standard disclosure and the reasonable search—what is standard disclosure?,...

Disclosure—technical glossary

This Practice Note should be read in conjunction with Practice Note: Disclosure—introduction, or Disclosure Scheme (Business & Property Courts)—overview depending on which disclosure scheme is in operation in the court in which the claim is proceeding (see: Which disclosure rules apply to my claim—flowchart?).TermDefinitionArtificial Intelligence (AI)an artificial means of replicating thought processes of the human brain which can result in either extractive (summarising) or generative (creating) AIback-up tapestapes which contain saved data. They are called 'back-up' because the information is copied onto the tapes and is available as a 'back-up'. Can also refer to any other method where data is regularly collected and stored separately for the purposes of risk management. See also incremental back-ups belowbit and byteelectronic data can be measured in bits, which refers to the space taken up. 8 bits = 1 byte. 1 byte is the equivalent of 1 character of text; 1024 bytes = 1 kilobyteChatGPTan example of an AI tool launched in 2022; other models are availableclusteringthis type of search automatically identifies similar documents...

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Process management—step plan

Process management—step plan Task Points to consider Actions ☐ Prioritise the legal department’s work according to what is strategic for the business A review of the legal department’s budget and activity will help you to assess how the legal team can work more effectively and achieve the right outcomes for the organisation. An understanding of your organisation’s long-terms goals and objectives will help you to ensure that the legal department can align its skills and resources to the organisation’s strategy. For more guidance, see:—Practice Note: Strategic alignment—Precedent: Strategic planning—step planWhich are the high-value activities that the legal department engages in and which are the low-value ones?Consider how to stop/outsource/re-process low-value activity.Is all the work done by the legal department still appropriate/relevant? Just because something has been done in the past, doesn’t mean that it has value or that it is relevant now. ☐ Assess the ways that legal services are delivered to the organisation Is work being diverted to external providers or advice being sought...

Legal services outsourcing strategy

Legal services outsourcing strategy 1 Introduction This document was prepared by [insert name or role] on [insert date]. It sets out the proposed strategy for resourcing [insert organisation’s name]’s legal services, in particular which services should be outsourced to external providers and which should be retained in-house. 2 Internal legal resources 2.1 The legal team Headcount [State full-time equivalent (FTE) headcount] Composition of legal team Head of legal team: [State name, full-time or part-time, high-level summary of experience, eg number of years][State name or role]: [State name, full-time or part-time, area(s) of particular expertise (if applicable), level of experience, eg number of years][State name or role]: [State name, full-time or part-time, area(s) of particular expertise (if applicable), level of experience, eg number of years] Support team [[State name or role]: [State name, full-time or part-time, area(s) of particular expertise (if applicable), level of experience, eg number of years]ORNA] [Cost] [Salaries: legal team £[insert] [([including OR excluding] bonuses, employer’s pension contributions, other benefits and employer’s NICs)] ] [Salaries:...

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GDPR for litigators

Dispute Resolution analysis: Allen & Overy explore three areas where litigators should be thinking about GDPR: disclosure, subject access requests and group litigation (representation of data subjects).