Legal Process Outsourcing · India
Give your law firm, legal department, or growing company a dedicated drafting team in India, contracts, NDAs, employment agreements, and commercial documents produced at scale, at a fraction of onshore cost, without adding headcount.
Whether you need a dedicated resource, a project-based engagement, or ongoing overflow support, tell us your volume and document types and we’ll come back with a clear scope and pricing.
Legal process outsourcing is the practice of routing routine, high-volume, or specialised legal drafting work to a dedicated team outside your own office, typically in a lower-cost jurisdiction with strong legal talent, so your in-house team or firm can focus on strategy, client relationships, and the matters that genuinely need to sit with you locally. It is not a replacement for your legal function, it is additional drafting capacity built into it.
India has become one of the largest LPO markets globally for a specific reason: a common-law legal tradition that maps closely to the US, UK, and much of the Commonwealth, a large pool of English-speaking, formally trained lawyers, and a cost structure that typically runs a fraction of onshore drafting rates without a corresponding drop in quality. Law firms, corporate legal departments, and fast-growing companies across the US, UK, Europe, UAE, and Australia already route contract drafting, review, and documentation work to Indian legal teams as a standing part of how they operate.
This is different from hiring us for a single contract. If you need one document drafted, our contract drafting service covers that directly. This page is for when you need an ongoing team, a dedicated resource, a project-based volume engagement, or standing overflow capacity, handling your drafting workload the way an extension of your own legal team would.
There is no single way to outsource legal drafting, the right model depends on your volume and how predictable your workload is. We work across three structures.
A fixed drafting resource, effectively an extension of your own team, working your hours or overlapping with your time zone, handling whatever drafting and review work you route to them. Best for firms or companies with steady, ongoing volume who want continuity and someone who genuinely learns your templates, house style, and risk tolerance over time.
A defined batch of documents, drafted, reviewed, or standardised, delivered against a clear scope and timeline. Best for a one-time push: standardising your template library, drafting a batch of vendor agreements before a compliance deadline, or clearing a documentation backlog.
Standing capacity you call on as volume spikes, without committing to a full-time resource. Best for firms and legal departments whose drafting workload is real but uneven, so you are not overstaffed in quiet months and are not scrambling in busy ones.
The full range of commercial and corporate documentation, handled at volume.
Service agreements, supplier and vendor contracts, purchase orders, and master service agreements, drafted or standardised across your full vendor base rather than handled one at a time.
Mutual and one-directional NDAs, drafted or reviewed at the volume a growing sales or partnerships team actually generates, without every one landing on in-house counsel’s desk.
Offer letters, employment agreements, contractor agreements, and workplace policy documentation, standardised across regions and roles as your headcount scales.
Founders’ agreements, partnership deeds, and joint venture contracts, drafted for the specific commercial terms your client or portfolio company has actually negotiated.
Shareholders’ agreements, LLC operating agreements, and governance documentation, drafted to the standard your investors or board will actually scrutinise.
Due diligence document review, share purchase agreements, asset purchase agreements, and definitive transaction documents, drafted or reviewed at the pace deal timelines actually demand.
Privacy policies, terms of service, cookie policies, and SaaS or software licensing agreements, drafted or updated across a product portfolio as regulations and features change.
IP assignment agreements, licensing and royalty agreements, and confidentiality terms protecting proprietary technology, brand, and content across a growing portfolio.
Non-compete, non-solicitation, and restrictive covenant clauses, drafted to the enforceability standard of the specific jurisdiction they need to hold up in.
Board resolutions, powers of attorney, incorporation documents, and standing corporate governance paperwork that recurs across a portfolio of entities or clients.
Commercial lease agreements, loan and financing documentation, and security agreements, drafted or reviewed against your standard forms.
Auditing and standardising your existing contract templates into a consistent, current, house-style library, so every document leaving your organisation reads like it came from one legal team.
Drafting workload looks different by industry, and so does the documentation that actually matters. We work across:
Legal drafting outsourcing built around how each market actually works.
US law firms and in-house legal teams route contract drafting and document review to India to manage cost pressure without slowing down deal or matter timelines. We draft against US-style contract conventions and can work significant overlap hours with Eastern and Pacific time zones, so documents move overnight and are ready by the time your team is back online.
India’s common-law tradition maps closely to English law, which is why UK firms and companies have outsourced legal drafting here for decades. For clients operating in the EU, we draft data-related documentation with GDPR-aware terms, and standard commercial agreements adapted to civil-law jurisdictions where needed.
Companies structured through DIFC or ADGM operate under common-law frameworks that Indian-trained lawyers work with fluently, while we also draft for onshore UAE structures where the governing framework differs. If you operate across both, we can support documentation for each correctly.
Both are common-law jurisdictions with contract conventions close enough to India’s that drafting translates directly, while still respecting the specific statutory and regulatory differences that apply locally. A useful, cost-efficient option for companies scaling their documentation without scaling headcount.
Cost. Drafting rates in India typically run a fraction of onshore rates for equivalent work, without a corresponding drop in quality, which is the single biggest reason the LPO industry exists at the scale it does.
Common-law familiarity. India’s legal system shares its foundations with the US, UK, Australia, and much of the Commonwealth, so the drafting conventions, clause structures, and legal concepts translate directly rather than needing to be reinterpreted across legal traditions.
English-language legal talent at scale. A large pool of English-speaking, formally trained lawyers means you are not compromising on drafting quality to access the cost advantage.
Time zone leverage. For US and European clients particularly, the time difference becomes an advantage rather than a constraint, work handed off at the end of your day is often ready before you’re back at your desk.
Capacity without headcount. Scaling a drafting team up or down with actual workload, rather than carrying fixed headcount through quiet periods or scrambling to hire during busy ones.
Outsourced drafting only works if you can trust it with sensitive commercial information. Every engagement starts with a mutual NDA, and document handling follows secure transfer and storage practices throughout the engagement, whether it’s a single project or an ongoing dedicated resource. We’re happy to work within your own data handling and security requirements where you have them, rather than asking you to adapt to ours.
Tell us your document types, volume, and preferred engagement model, dedicated resource, project-based, or overflow support, and we’ll come back with a clear scope and pricing.
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My Legal Pal is led by Prakhar Rai, an advocate enrolled with the Bar Council of India and an alumnus of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore, with a Master of Business Laws. Prakhar and the My Legal Pal team draft and review commercial documentation for companies and law firms across India and internationally.
Reviewed by Prakhar Rai, Advocate (Bar Council of India). Last updated: August 2026.
