Wipro Logs On To LPO Services
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The Economic Times reports that India’s third-largest software exporter, Wipro, has started offering legal process outsourcing (LPO) services as part of the knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) services business headed by former banker and Wipro BPO senior VP Ramit Sethi.
The focus of the LPO will be to offer services such as patents and contract management rather than paralegal services and litigation support, where the clientele are mostly law firms.
“The objective is to provide end-to-end services catering to the same global customer. LPO becomes a logical extension given the cost pressures that clients are facing now. We find that there is a very healthy demand for the services”, Mr Sethi said.
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