LPO Services: Specialist Legal Teams at Scale
Senior legal reviewers and specialist legal teams in Colombo, calibrated to international firm standards, scaling from a single matter to multi-thousand-document reviews. ISO/IEC 27001 certified.
Why This Service Exists
There is a category of matter work that fits nowhere well. It is too high in volume to sit on partner or associate time without destroying realisation, and too sensitive in judgement to hand to a generalist vendor whose reviewers rotate off the engagement every quarter.
Firms end up choosing between two bad options: absorb the work internally and watch write-offs climb, or push it to a low-cost provider and absorb the quality risk, the re-review cost and the client conversation that follows.
3Rive's LPO service is built for that middle. Senior reviewers and qualified lawyers in Colombo, calibrated to international firm standards, with continuity of reviewer teams across long-running engagements so the knowledge built on matter one is still there at matter forty.
How It Helps Clients
- Senior reviewers with practice-area depth.Qualified lawyers and experienced reviewers who know the practice area, so judgement calls are made at the right level rather than escalated.
- Continuity across long-running engagements.The same reviewer teams stay with the matter, so nothing has to be re-explained at the start of each batch.
- Scales from one matter to multi-thousand-document reviews.Volume flexes with the matter without renegotiating the engagement each time.
- ISO/IEC 27001 certified delivery.Data handling, access control and audit trail governed to a certified standard, with governance paths built around your firm's compliance requirements.
- AI-augmented where it holds up.Review workflows use AI where accuracy thresholds are met and human reviewers where they are not, built and evaluated by the same team that runs our Claude deployments.
- Reviewers matched to the matter.From insurance defence through to shipping and energy, the team is assembled around the practice area the work sits in.
What We Cover
Document Review and eDiscovery
- First-level and second-level document review.
- eDiscovery support, technology-assisted review and disclosure workflows.
- Privilege review and redaction.
Transactional and Advisory Work
- Contract drafting, review and abstraction at volume.
- Transactional support across due diligence, post-completion and ongoing matter work.
- Legal research and memorandum preparation.
Specialist and Practice-Area Depth
- Senior reviewers and qualified lawyers across the practice areas below.
How It Works
Scoping
We assess the work against volume, turnaround, practice area, judgement level and confidentiality requirements.
Team Assembly
Reviewers and qualified lawyers matched to the practice area, with a named lead who stays with the engagement.
Protocol and Calibration
Review protocol agreed with your team, followed by a calibration set scored jointly before production review starts.
Pilot Batch
A defined first batch runs against agreed quality and throughput benchmarks, with joint QA review before scaling.
Scale to Run Rate
Volume expands with quality sampling maintained throughout and reviewer continuity preserved.
Governance and Reporting
Regular service reviews against agreed KPIs, with ISO/IEC 27001-certified data handling throughout.
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Definition
What is legal process outsourcing?
Legal Process Outsourcing
Legal process outsourcing, or LPO, is the delegation of legal work from a law firm or in-house team to an external provider, usually to handle work that is too high in volume for fee earner time. Common LPO work includes first and second-level document review, eDiscovery and disclosure support, privilege review and redaction, contract review and abstraction, and legal research. 3Rive delivers LPO from an ISO/IEC 27001-certified centre in Colombo, staffed by senior reviewers and qualified lawyers calibrated to international firm standards, with continuity of reviewer teams across long-running engagements.
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