Legal Research & Drafting

Unlike other LPO (legal process outsourcing) companies, our focus is on the provision of high-end, high-quality, knowledge-based legal outsourcing services, such as legal research and the drafting of complaints, motions, legal briefs and memoranda, discovery documents, appeals, summaries of witness statements, and any other litigation papers, as well as the creation of print, videotape, and animation exhibits for trial. Our legal associates are top law graduates and experienced legal advocates and/or former law professors in India, who in turn are trained and supervised by accomplished U.S. and/or U.K. attorneys or solicitors who have been practicing at the top of their respective fields.

In accordance with the codes of professional conduct and ethics governing the practice of law in the United States and the United Kingdom, the expert lawyers of SmithDehn INDIA who are not licensed in the U.S. or the U.K. do not provide U.S. or U.K. legal advice. Instead, we provide streamlined, creative, and result-oriented litigation support, performing a multitude of research, drafting and other tasks that can be done in India and supervised by licensed attorneys, faster and at a fraction of the cost.

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Legal Research


SmithDehn’s legal research teams, like all of our litigation support personnel, are experienced lawyers who hail from prestigious Indian law schools and law firms, and who are fully trained by U.S. and/or U.K. attorneys or solicitors. They can provide any number of research tasks, across key subscription databases such as Westlaw and other platforms.

Our teams can handle legal research in virtually any jurisdiction or area of the law. Already they have handled projects involving the following subjects:

  • intellectual property, including copyrights, trademarks, trade dress, etc.
  • defamation and invasion of privacy
  • rights of publicity
  • anti-piracy litigation
  • entertainment law
  • trade secrets
  • employment and labor law
  • general civil areas such as fraud and contract law
  • litigation procedure
  • state and federal statutes
  • multi-jurisdictional comparison surveys
  • factual research, including financial, corporate and other data


Legal Drafting


SmithDehn INDIA’s experienced lawyers are fully trained in U.S. and/or U.K.-style legal drafting and citation form. They can expeditiously and cost-effectively draft any of the following materials and more:

  • legal briefs and memoranda
  • discovery requests and responses
  • appeal papers, including notices and briefs
  • petitions for certiorari
  • summaries of witness statements
  • deposition digests
  • print, videotape, and animation exhibits for trials
  • any other litigation papers
  • employment manuals
  • licenses and other contracts