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Trustman & Co. http://trustman.org
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About Us
• Established in 1998, Trustman & Co., is a full service law firm headquartered in New Delhi, India.
• Trustman is actively focused on Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO), particularly in Contract Management, E-Discovery, Litigation Support, Research, IPR and all other regular legal back end work.
• Trustman has offices in New Delhi and Noida in India and an additional office in the USA.
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About us • Currently, Trustman employs diverse
professionals such as; Attorneys, Engineers, CPA, CS, IT. All professionals are qualified from top Indian Engineering and Law Schools.
• We are flexibile to ramp up Attorneys in less than 30-days depending on project size requirements.
• We have State-of-the-art technology driven offices.
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Profile of PartnersKaviraj Singh is the founder partner of Trustman & Co that he formed in the year 1998. Mr. Singh has essentially practiced in the areas of commercial laws with specialization in Banking and Real estate, Commercial and Regulatory compliance laws. Mr. Singh is the founding Chairman of India Chapter of New York State Bar Association, International Section. International Section of New York State Bar Association conferred the title of Chapter Chairman Emeritus on Mr. Singh Mr. Singh is presented with memento by the Consular General of United State of America Consulate at New Delhi. Mr. Singh also worked as a Director, India Office, New York State Department of Economic Development to promote the investment into New York and export from New York State to India.
Mr. Axel Heck, a partner, has been a member of the New York and German Bars since 1978 and from 1992 to 2006 served also a member of the Paris Bar. He specializes in complex transnational transactions & corporate practice, international private dispute resolution & its alternatives, strategic legal counseling & crisis management. Mr. Heck is a member of the Arbitration Commission of the International Chamber of Commerce, Paris, of the International Panel of the International Dispute Resolution Center of the American Arbitration Association, New York City & Dublin, and of the Indian National Bar Association panel of arbitrators.
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Pooja DuttaShe has gained prior experience at large, local and international law firms,including renowned firms such as Martin F. McMahon & Associates,Washington DC, USA which is the first law firm to file a criminal case againstthe Government of Syria in the United States of America. She has also workedwith Barkats & Associates, Washington DC, USA. Pooja is a visiting faculty atthe K.C. Law College, Mumbai for IPR and contract law. Additionally Poojaserves as the Executive Director of Global Vision India Foundation, a NGOthat’s works towards providing excellence in legal education and holds theposition as Of Counsel for ITAG, a Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) firm.Pooja, skilled in Trademark and Copyright prosecution, IP, Software andTechnology Licensing has extensive experience in IPR. She not only heads theIntellectual Property department, but additionally also handles litigation andcorporate work at the firm. Being committed to serving society, Pooja isinvolved with the crime enforcement department of the Mumbai Police intheir anti-drug and cyber crime initiatives, and provides pro bono services toseveral charitable institutes. LL.M., George Washington University, USA
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UTTAM DATT
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Uttam Datt graduated in law in the year 1995 and got enrolled with the Bar
at New Delhi. He largely practiced commercial law and Arbitration, Litigation
and has essentially practiced in the area of International as well as national
commercial litigation & arbitration in the area of Power, Corporate, Real
Estate, Banking, Industrial dispute and constitutional law. Besides litigation,
Mr. Datt has been advising leading private equity funds operating in the
country for their domestic funds and FDI based investments including
structuring of investments and handled FDI investments made by leading
private equity funds in large real estate projects including land due diligence
assignments.
Subramanya Sirish Tamvada
Sirish enrolled as a lawyer at the High Court of Delhi in the year 2007. Hewon many scholarships and accolades. He was one of the few Indiansselected for the prestigious Erasmus Mundus Scholarship to pursueMasters Degree in Global Studies. He received full tuition scholarship topursue his Masters of Laws degree from American University, WashingtonCollege of Law, Washington D.C., USA. Sirish primarily practicescommercial laws especially, Company Laws, Mergers and Acquisitions,Competition Law, drafting contracts and has experience in Litigation andArbitration. In addition to practicing law he also undertakes teachingassignments from time to time.
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Services
We offer range of legal services especially, in the following areas:
•Legal Process Outsourcing •Offshore Law Firms •Intellectual Property•Transactional •Banking, Insurance & Finance•Debt Collection •Corporate, Secretarial and Legal Compliance •Employment Law
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LPO Services Offered
I. General ServicesLegal Process Outsourcing (LPO) are any regular services that can be supported remotely for your law firm or for your clients, e.g., legal database update, notices on mortgages, cease & desist, online notices having standard formats, legal magazine/ journal support to law firm clients.
II. IP Support
TRADEMARKS Trademarks searches, drafting application, filing and prosecution at USPTO;
PATENTS Patent Preparation, Searches, Invalidation searches, Portfolio mapping, Prosecution at USPTO, Figures as per USPTO specification.
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LPO Services Offered
III. E-DiscoveryLitigation Readiness advise, Strategizing , Data Collection, Data Processing, Document Reviewing, Producing.
IV. Litigation Support Preparing Date and Event Schedule, Case summarizing, judgment validation and collecting information from client, Summarizing, online filing of writ, documents, notice of attachment etc before the court. Drafting of pleadings and filling the forms etc.
V. Legal research Preparing memos and researching for relevant judgments (of a particular US circuit court) on Lexis database.
VI. Paralegal Support • Document Management Services, US Court Judgment Validations, Online
• Managing Attorney Calendars, Docketing Systems, Backup Management
• Services.
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LPO Services Offered Document Review
• Provided by carefully screened, qualified professionals with the optimum mix of medical expertise, legal and document review experience to assist with all matters requiring medical review, such as medical malpractice, products liability, toxic tort, healthcare, insurance, and pharmaceutical matters. Supervision and quality control by qualified doctors.
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LPO Services Offered • Immigration Law
Draft documents related to all immigration practices spanning work permits, citizenship, sponsorship declarations, student & visitor visas, change in status and all other permits.
• Title Search
To verify the ownership and title history of the property
• The Bankruptcy
• Any services that are routine & repetitive can be outsourced
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Case Study• CASE STUDY 1:
A legal research organization assisting several law firms has engaged Trustman to carry out legal research on issues and take out similar judgments affecting its case. It handovers facts and legal issues for which Trustman Lawyers (+3 year experience), use Lexis to prepare Memo for the Legal research organization.
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Case Study• CASE STUDY 2:
A software company’s Brand Protection department in the Bay-area, has engaged Trustman investigators to trace its products available online with websites like e-bay, torrent, etc. Investigators help in locating targets and also do Test Purchase in name of specified companies. A report is prepared every week on the status of location of each target.
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Case Study• CASE STUDY :
A leading firm in USA has engaged Trustman to do background checks on specified employees, property title search, E-discovery, Document review, Online Filing of document & Pleadings in the court, judgment validation. Trustman prepare a report in a pre-defined template and submit the same to client.
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Offshore Law Firm Setup• Absolute control over Indian Operations, including
hiring and promotions
• Exclusive IT-network, Computers and Facilities provided
• Experienced support in terms of setting up entity, offices, hiring and training of Attorneys and paralegal in India.
• Direct (or dotted) line reporting structure to U.S. or Europe managers.
• Only payroll and general administration functions controlled by Trustman (with supervision of outsourcing partner).
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Approximate Charges
• Trustman does away with archaic billable hour model.
• Trustman provides the dedicated staff on a reasonable monthly retainer ship
• Fixed fees for each assignment/ task if there is no volume.
• Trustman works closely with clients to reduce their cost from 40% to 60%
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Recommended Engagement Model
LPO MODEL OF ENGAGEMENT
• A team of Attorneys & paralegals work on your cases, from our offices/ facilities in New Delhi.
• These are dedicated staffs who work only for your projects/ cases.
• The staff is trained both by you and Trustman management.
• If required, the Attorney/ Paralegal based in India will visit your office to get appropriate training for 1 week or so.
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Recommended Engagement Model
OFFSHORE LAW FIRM ENGAGEMENT MODEL
• Standard Agreement for Set-up, Run and transfer basis.
• A dedicated Trustman team to assist in a) Renting Facilities, b) IT-networks set up and c) Hiring Candidates d) Entity Set-up.
• No “No-Hire” Clause for clients.
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Why Trustman?
1. CONFIDENTIALITY • Employees bound by strong confidentiality and IP contracts, applicable both under the
India and United States laws.• Employees cannot work for competitors on the similar projects• Strong policies and technical firewalls among teams working in India.• We never give out your name or your client’s names to anyone.
2. HIGH HIRING STANDARDS FOR CANDIDATES • Hiring from Campus, the Bar and Placement Consultants.• Written Test, Drafting Test, Interviews and Group Discussion for candidates.
3. INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORT• Trustman provides extremely great facilities and infrastructure for employees in India.• Computers, Faxes, Air-conditioning, Conference call facilities, Software's such as Windows• Acrobat Standard, Norton are provided free of cost to employees. • Free of costs lunch and snacks are provided for office employees.
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Why Trustman?
4. HIGH RESPONSIVENESS
• We offer High Responsiveness and Single Point of Contact with weekly updates on the project;
5. TRAINING • We provide weekly in-house training to employees on different subject
matters - IP, Contracts, E-Discovery, Database handling, Litigation Support, etc.
• For certain projects, Trustman provide for tickets & stay of employees to US to get training.
6. NO RISK & EASY EXIT • Flexible Engagement Models;• Act as back office on fixed fees. This arrangement helps our customers to
retain their margins and commitments with their customers.
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Thank You
Q & A?
By Kaviraj Singh
Founding Partner
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