Legal Outsourcing Services in Bangladesh for Foreign Firms

Legal outsourcing adds value by separating the work that needs a qualified opinion from the work that needs a reliable process. Foreign companies and international businesses keep the first inside the firm and move the second to a Bangladesh-based team working to written instruction. The four effects below are the ones clients name most often when the split is made.

Four effects of moving the recurring layer out:

Payroll2Bangladesh performs process-driven legal support work under your instruction, while legal accountability for advice and representation stays with your own advocates or in-house counsel. Under the Bangladesh Legal Practitioner’s and Bar Council Order, 1972, Article 19(2), an advocate “shall be entitled as of right to practise throughout Bangladesh, and to appear, act and plead before any court”. Our scope stops at drafting, research, review and records work.

Where a task sits in the last row, we hand the file back rather than act on it.

An engagement runs in five stages, and each stage ends with a named record rather than a status update. The sequence is fixed, so you always know which stage a file sits in and who is holding it. Stages three and four repeat for recurring work, while stages one and two are done once per engagement unless the agreed scope changes.

1. Scope confirmation — the task list, file types and handback points are agreed in writing.
2. Access and confidentiality — document access is granted under agreed confidentiality terms and controlled permissions.
3. Production — drafting, research, review or records work is carried out to your written instruction.
4. Handback — the record produced is returned to your counsel for decision and signature.
5. Recurring cycle — agreed recurring tasks continue on the schedule you set.

Our scope is defined by the record produced, not by the hours spent, and the boundaries below are the ones we state before any file is opened. Each boundary names what we hand over and where our part stops, so nothing is assumed on either side once work begins. Where a request falls outside these lines, we say so at scoping rather than mid-file.

• Drafting standardContract drafting support is prepared against the Contract Act, 1872, section 10, which provides that “All agreements are contracts if they are made by the free consent of parties competent to contract, for a lawful consideration and with a lawful object, and are not hereby expressly declared to be void.”
• Corporate recordsCorporate record work covers registers, resolutions, filings and constitutional documents held by the client, and stops at the point of submission. Entity formation itself is handled separately under branch office registration.
• Document reviewDocument review produces an issue list; it does not produce a privilege determination.
• Research sourcingResearch output carries its sources, so your counsel can verify every reference before relying on it.
• Where we stopWe do not enrol on the roll maintained by the Bangladesh Bar Council under the Bar Council Order, 1972, and we do not represent clients before any Bangladeshi court.

Source — the full text of the contract provision above is published by the Ministry of Law in the Contract Act, 1872, section 10.