Delivery standard
20+ hours per week of fee-earner time freed for billable advisory work
What this service is designed to deliver when deployed inside your workflow.
Financial & Legal Professional Services
Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) Outsourcing for UK Companies.
LLB-qualified paralegals and legal researchers handling your document review, case law research, and litigation support from Nairobi. English Common Law trained. 63% lower cost.
9:00–18:00 UK time (GMT+3)
|EOR or Managed Services
|7–14 days from signed agreement
Overview
What is Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO)?
Legal process outsourcing involves delegating procedural legal work — document review, case law research, contract analysis, and litigation bundle preparation — to qualified legal professionals in a lower-cost jurisdiction. Treba provides LLB-graduates and Kenya School of Law alumni in Nairobi who understand English Common Law intuitively and work inside your document management systems via secure VPN.
Typical client
UK law firms (10+ fee-earners) and corporate legal departments with high-volume procedural workloads
At a glance
How Treba delivers.
The operating facts behind legal process outsourcing (lpo): delivery standard, team shape, and compliance model.
Typical team size
2–6 dedicated legal professionals per firm
Scaled to project load and pipeline.
Compliance model
UK GDPR aligned — IDTA framework
Legal and data-transfer structure for the engagement.
UK loaded cost
£45,416/yr
Paralegal
The challenge
Why UK companies struggle with legal process outsourcing (lpo).
Your associates and partners are spending 40–60% of their time on procedural work that does not require their expertise — bundle preparation, disclosure review, case law summaries, and lease abstraction. That time has a direct cost: every hour a £300/hr associate spends on non-billable process work is revenue lost. Hiring additional paralegals in London costs £32,000+ per head, takes weeks, and adds to your fixed overhead in a market where legal demand is cyclical.
Outcomes
What you'll achieve.
See the shift from UK in-house benchmarks to Treba delivery outcomes.
Outcome
Fee-Earner Time Freed
UK in-house
0 hrs/week (no support)
With Treba
20+ hrs/week per fee-earner
Outcome
Cost Per Legal Professional
UK in-house
£45,416/yr loaded (London)
With Treba
£12,000/yr loaded (Nairobi)
Outcome
Research Turnaround
UK in-house
2–5 days (UK paralegal)
With Treba
< 24 hours
Capabilities
What we deliver.
Case Law Research & Memoranda
“Research briefs delivered overnight, ready for the supervising solicitor.”
Document Review & Disclosure
“High-volume document sets reviewed, tagged, and summarised.”
Litigation Bundle Preparation
“Court bundles assembled to CPR standards.”
Meet Your Next Hire
“I produce 3–4 research memoranda per week for a UK commercial litigation firm. The Common Law system means I already understand precedent, ratio decidendi, and obiter dicta — I am not learning these concepts from scratch.”
JO
James O.
Legal Researcher
Education
LLB, University of Nairobi; Advocate (High Court of Kenya)
Certification
Kenya School of Law ATP Graduate
Experience
3–7 years in legal process outsourcing (lpo) roles
Economics
UK loaded cost vs Treba.
Fully loaded comparison — Treba cost includes salary, Nairobi office, equipment, IT infrastructure, and full compliance. No hidden fees.
Save 75%
Remote from Nairobi
Audit Assistant
Pre-vetted · Interview in 48hrs · Start in 7 days
UK Cost
£43,140
Treba Cost
£10,800/yr
You Save
£32,340/yr
How it works
How we deliver legal process outsourcing (lpo).
01
Discovery Call
Scope, volume, tools, compliance requirements. 1–2 days.
02
Talent Selection
Pre-vetted candidates matched to your brief. 3–5 days.
03
Tech & Compliance Setup
VDI/VPN access, NDA execution, DPA signing. 2–3 days.
04
Nest Training
2-week onboarding inside your systems with QA checkpoints.
05
Go Live
Full production. Weekly check-ins for first 30 days.
Engagement models
Two ways to work
with Treba.
Choose the model that fits your team. Switch anytime.
EOR (Employer of Record)
Managed Services
£17kAvg. annual
saving
saving
Your Treba team
James M.
KYC Analyst
Amina K.
Med. Transcriber
David O.
QA Tester
Total / yr£28,400
Compliance built in. Not bolted on.
UK GDPR + IDTA
International Data Transfer Agreement for lawful UK–Kenya data flows. Executed by legal counsel. Annual review.
Kenya DPA 2019
Modelled on EU GDPR. Regulated by ODPC. Enforceable. Equivalent protection.
ISO 27001-Aligned
Biometric access. Clean desk policy. CCTV. Network segmentation. No shortcuts.
Cyber Essentials
UK government-backed baseline cybersecurity certification. Audited annually. Public record.
Industries
Industries using this service.
Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) outsourcing for regulated UK industries.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
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Save £33,416 per year with a dedicated legal process outsourcing (lpo) team in Nairobi. Pre-vetted professionals ready in 7–14 days. UK GDPR compliant.