Lexhawk Summer Internship - 2020: Contract Management Outsourcing Services
Lexhawk Summer Internship - 2020: Contract Management Outsourcing Services
Lexhawk Summer Internship - 2020: Contract Management Outsourcing Services
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Today’s corporate legal departments are looking to streamline and improve their contract
management processes. In many cases, it makes good business sense to engage a Legal
Process Outsourcing (LPO) provider to manage legal service contracts, agreement drafting,
legal contract review and legal document review work.
LPO service providers offer governance, compliance and risk management solutions that
enable corporations to avoid or lessen business and reputational risks. Some of the most
commonly outsourced contract management processes include:
Contract management services are of great importance, especially for small businesses. It
involves various processes like assisting with drafting standard contracts, creating and
managing databases and repositories, contract reviewing as per standard position and map
deviations, analyzing contracts for specific compliance or other requirements, redlining and
negotiating agreements as per standard position, capturing, abstraction and summarization of
key information etc.
The contracts are used by small business owners to give their relationships with external
parties a formal look. A poorly defined contract could easily lead to a dispute between parties
and could result in the filing of court petitions. In order to avoid any challenges in the future,
the right strategy needs to be followed.
Ideal in cases of urgent requirement: The LPO firms based in offshore nations like India,
China, Philippines etc., can prove to be extremely beneficial in cases of urgent requirement.
There is a 10-12 hour difference in the time zones of nations like the US, China etc., and
nations like India and China which offers the unique benefit of assigning the contract
management tasks in the evening and getting the desired results by the morning.
Ensuring the right agreement of both parties: Generally, parties enter into a disagreement
with each other due to misunderstandings. The legal process outsourcing firms can help in
preparing contracts based on mutual understanding between both the parties and ensuring
that there are no future disputes between the parties.
All the crucial points will be discussed before commencing the contract preparation process.