Why should I utilize LexHarbor?

LexHarbor provides significant quality and cost advantages to its clients, thereby making it the preferred alternative to traditional, domestic temp agencies and paralegal consulting services.

The Need for Document Services
The document review process typically involves reading a plethora of papers in search of vital documents in a sea of useless ones, a Herculean task that is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack. Over 90% of federal court cases are settled before trial, and the ultimate disposition of many of these cases rests on the discovery (or non-discovery) of key documents. It is no wonder that the majority of the man-hours that most firms devote towards a case occurs in discovery, especially document review, deposition summaries and due diligence.

Leave Non-Lawyer Work to Non-Lawyers
The need for quality document production is often stifled by the simple reality that many attorneys perform document review with the mindset that it is a necessary, mindless evil. In many cases, coded documents, depositions summaries and due diligence reports overlook or ignore key issues or facts that can make or break a case. “Smoking gun” documents that might make-or-break a case are never found, attorney-client privilege is waived via inadvertent production, and bargaining leverage is lost at the settlement stage.

Client Concerns Over Overbilling
At the same time, clients are growing less willing to pay for document review work by junior associates at often exorbitant billing rates. In recent years, corporations have become more and more resistant to customary law firm billing strategies, especially with respect to the discovery process. Many multinational corporations (perhaps unfairly) point out the legal systems of civil law countries, which feature much narrower discovery processes, and ask: Am I being overbilled?

The LexHarbor Solution
Whether you are a law firm or in-house counsel, your company stands to gain from the efficiencies attendant to using our professional consultants to perform your document review. Chances are you (or your hired firm) already use paralegal or attorney placement agencies to benefit from cost advantages during the discovery process. Offshore document support outsourcing is the next step in continuing and extending these efficiencies, and maintaining your competitive advantage. By 2015, the U.S. legal outsourcing, which is in its nascent stages at present, will grow to a $4 billion industry. Can your business afford to be left behind?