Marlabs forays into Legal Processes Outsourcing (LPO) with its dedicated center in Bangalore

Bangalore, March 10, 2006: Marlabs Inc., a fast growing provider of technology services and solutions to select verticals today formally announced its foray into Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) business which it estimates to be a multi-billion dollar opportunity. The company is currently setting up a dedicated center in Bangalore for the same which is expected to ramp upto a headcount of 500 by end 2007. In tune with the current wave in the industry to move up the value chain, the new Marlabs foray into LPO will provide high-end decision support to law firms and professionals in the US on litigated cases depending on the information available.
Announcing this, Siby Antony, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Marlabs Inc. said,” It is fairly well known that most legal professionals spend a majority of their time deciding about cases and doing background work with hardly any time for meetings or court appearances. More so in the area of litigations, where right decisions on the case like options for an out of the court settlement can be immensely beneficial. Such decisions need in-depth knowledge of the case, an idea of relevant judicial pronouncements, a quick electronic discovery process etc. We hope to build on the initial expertise our team has built-up in this area to capture a significant share of this nascent but highly potential market.”
Added Sunil Nambiar, Head- Global Delivery Center, Marlabs India, “The center being set up in Bangalore will form the core for the delivery of LPO services and we hope to learn and add more and more value-added services to the current LPO offering. On headcount, we expect the center to staff about 500 plus professionals by end 2007.”


The new center for LPO would entail an investment of US$ 4-5 million and Marlabs is betting on LPO to increase its business overall as well as its offshore presence in India. The center which is already functional in Bangalore currently has 100 professionals on its rolls. Having strong software development capabilities in the US and India to service its large clients world-wide, Marlabs believes it can add value to this LPO activity with in-house software, thereby reducing dependency on third parties. Marlabs solutions for LPO include:
 Litigation management portals
 Document management systems
 Legal Front Office systems
 Data Conversion & Mining
 Claims Management systems
 Infrastructure Support Solutions

Specific areas of expertise include:
 Legal Bill Review systems
 Cross-enterprise collaboration for settlement processes with electronic document tracking and sharing
 Document Abstraction, Indexing and Hyper linking
 Electronic forms and submissions
Based out of Edison NJ, USA, Marlabs Inc. is a US$50 million provider of a full suite of solutions and services for the healthcare, insurance, real estate, media and entertainment verticals. It partners leading technology firms such as Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and Sybase to ensure cutting edge technology solutions for its clients. The company has two facilities in India today – a facility to house its staffing arm/its sales and marketing professional and a pure-play development center providing offshore support. Besides Bangalore, the company also has development centers in Philadelphia, PA and Austin, TX. For further details please log on to www.marlabs.com

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