Contract Management

Archive for February, 2010

When it comes to outsourcing custom software development services the main question which comes to our mind is that of trust. We always understand that you may have apprehensions about doing business across the globe. This is why we have designed our processes in a way to give you a great outsourcing experience.

How can these services be successfully carried?

1. The way the solutions we designed for your company are completely in accordance with your business objectives.

2. Complete transparency is maintained in the business.

3. We make sure that the processes we follow increases efficiency of the whole project.

Legal considerations

Contract of the services: a services contract should be signed detailing about the responsibilities which are to be carried by both the parties.

Non Disclosure Agreement: it is always good to ensure confidentiality in the work so a Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) should be signed. Moreover the project details should be provided to those members who are working on the project.

The services which can be provided in custom software development are:

Workflow Automation Software: this helps you organize your work and so your files become organized and then you can automate your business processes easily. This also means that you don’t have to struggle among the files of the paperwork so it will increase your productivity, efficiency and speed.

Offshore Telecom Software Services: this service includes the development of telecom software solutions, their testing, their implementation and their maintenance. Depending on the requirements they can be turn-key solutions which are for fixed requirements and time and material solutions or more dynamic requirements.

Offshore Health Software Services: good medical management software or good practice management software reduces the errors in billing and coding and also file claims and readjudication thereby reducing claim denials.

Outsourcing custom development services is actually an E-commerce solution which helps in catering to the needs of the business that to halfway across the globe.

Roberto Luongo
http://www.articlesbase.com/software-articles/outsourcing-custom-software-development-services-the-nitty-gritties-689184.html

Large law firms and in house legal departments of large enterprises have enjoyed the benefits of outsourcing (quicker turnaround and lower costs) with success for quite some time in the United States.

On the other hand, small and midsize enterprises and law firms have just begun to outsource legal work to enjoy these benefits. This has become possible with a wider availability of technology at a lower cost, in addition to the arrival of a new breed of vendors who are addressing the unique requirements of small and midsized enterprises and law firms.

These vendors are providing services with better quality, by leveraging on technology and through deployment of experts in the work which is outsourced. Lawyers from India are increasingly familiar with US law and have several years of experience in doing legal work for US law firms and in house legal departments of large corporations. It has become possible to deploy experts these days due to aggregation of work from various clients, and the cascading higher volume of work.

The law firms and in house legal departments have enjoyed the benefits of a quicker turnaround time. The work left with the Indian entity at the end of their day is completed and available when they arrive at work the next day. These have become as important as the other core reason for outsourcing, namely saving of costs – law firms and enterprises have been able to save between 50 -60% of their cost by outsourcing legal services.

What work can be outsourced?

Any work that can be done without requiring fact to face interaction with clients or physical presence in a court of law can be outsourced. Some of the typical examples of work outsourced are in:

a) Contracts: Drafting, Review and management

b) Litigation Support : Discovery management, review, analysis and coding and Presentation

c) IP Rights: Search, Application for patents and defence

d) Legal and Business research

a) Contracts – Drafting, Review and Management

We prepare first-cut drafts of contracts that are fit for purpose and conform to your house style. You need to provide:

· Standard templates that conform to your house style and

· Unique variables relating to each contract

Your lawyers would still be in control over the quality of the draft and enforceability in courts of law without having to log expensive time in preparing the first cut draft.

We can handle a wide variety of contracts including contracts for:

· Sale of securities and derivatives

· Sale of goods or services

· Sale or mortgage of property

· Lease of property

· Lease of equipments

· Employment etc

We manage your contracts by maintaining a comprehensive database of all your contracts that provide:

· Contract information (Purpose, Period, Entities, Addresses, Counsel, Validity, Termination rights, Applicable law, Jurisdiction etc)

· Summary of terms

· History of notices

We maintain a summary of all obligations and covenants (to facilitate compliance) and all rights (to enforce compliance)

b) Litigation Support

Our litigation support services include:

· Discovery management,

· Review

· Analysis and coding and

· Presentation

To help your lawyers focus on successfully winning or defending cases.

We help your lawyers to stay focused on winning the case by providing discovery management support.
Our services include:

· Understanding case issues and priorities

· Determination of collecting strategy

· Determination of work processes to speed up and yet not miss out on collecting documents

· Quick focus on most useful documents by continuous elimination of irrelevant items

· Quick analysis of documents for materiality, relevance, confidentiality and privilege; rapid automated
codification and validation

· Quick production of documents to facilitate rapid internalization and access

We can work with your proprietary document discovery management system or any standard off-the-shelf solution including ConcordanceFYI ™ and CaseLogistix ™.

In spite of increasing popularity of e-discovery, physical paperwork has continued to stay. We help your lawyers by reviewing physical paper documents and codifying them for rapid prioritization and access.

We measure our success by reducing your attorney’s document review time and cost. Not just by being more competitive than other providers in discovery process.

c) IP Rights

Our lawyers (supported by domain professionals) can support you in

· Prior Art Search,

· Assessment of patentability,

· Patent proofing,

· Invention disclosure evaluation and

· Drafting the application for patents.

We offer support in IP Asset management with review of potential or existing infringements and in litigations to protect against such infringements.

d) Legal and Business Research

We conduct research on industry standard private databases as well as public domain databases to provide research support to your team of lawyers to win/defend litigation or to provide counsel to clients on complex issues.

Our research support includes:

· Reviewing legislation

· Reviewing case law precedence

· Reviewing journals

· Reviewing contracts and

· Preparing summaries and abstracts.

Where to outsource?

Law firms and in house legal departments typically outsource legal work to someone who is willing to understand their requirements, and give quality service that they require.

TaurusQuest is one such company, which has acquired expertise in serving small and midsize enterprises better, and has been recognized for its operational excellence and delighting service. We were awarded 4th worldwide by the US based Black Book of Outsourcing for one of our services in 2007. We have a number of legal professionals who have experience in providing the services mentioned above to US and International law firms and to business enterprises. The senior executives of the company have lived and worked in the US.

TaurusQuest has two delivery centers in Chennai, India with 300 seats. For further details on our company and the services we offer, visit us at www.taurusquest.com and Contact us at [email protected]

pksaravanan
http://www.articlesbase.com/outsourcing-articles/outsourcing-legal-services-690910.html

Why do I need and where do I start?

Being a business proprietor, there are quite many things you need to keep an eye on as you administer them. At the outset you should ensure if all facets of your company are running smooth. One important thing, you should never forget and always be conscious about is the need of employment contracts as you make way for new members to join in with you. This is significant when you initiate your business at first. It is quite imperative, as it not just protects your employees from various legal tribulations, but it shields your business as well. If you plan about writing the contract all by yourself, you should dive to search a few employment contract ideas, consequently writing the best indenture that you perhaps can. Nevertheless, it can perhaps be quite unfavorable if you let go of anything vital.

Always be aware of…

As you dive in to search for latest employment contract notions, you would know that there are a few things which are forever in the bond for the new members to sign in. In case of fresh hire, it would mention the wages that the new employees would begin their term with. This is the situation, no matter if they receive an annual salary or an hourly raise. Additionally, if you are promising any standard raises or standard probability for raises, it needs to be mentioned in the contract of employment. Further significant thing with regards to employment contract ideas would be to make a list of all the member-benefits that the employees would be getting and would have access to. This would undoubtedly include factors like health insurance and retirement programs. Any legal terms concerning them should also be listed clear. For an instance, some companies provide fully paid vacations for a week, to their employees, which accrue per annum. If you think there exist similar things with your corporation, ascertain to list all of them.

Find the right ideas; right place

As now it is apparent that there are several things you need to keep in mind before going about writing employment contract ideas, you can ensure to obtain as many contract samples as possible so that it would assist you with the writing process. There are various places to hunt for these contact ideas. In book stores and libraries, you can hit upon books that have a listing of assorted employment contract ideas. These could be either in the management or business sections. You can depend upon these books as they often have reliable data containing within them. It is true that you can find it cheaper and at ease if you stick to the internet for these contract ideas, but it is not easy to conclude that these notions are provided by professionals. Quite a few websites advertize in such ways being essentially far away from the facts.

Abhishek Agarwal
http://www.articlesbase.com/careers-articles/employment-contract-ideas-everything-you-need-to-know-about-contracts-703319.html