Who Are the Founders of Bodhi Global?

Bodhi Global was founded by three of the top lawyers in India and the founders of one of India's most successful companies providing IT infrastructure in the BPO space:

• Ajay Bahl, Zia Mody and Bahram Vakil are the three founding partners of AZB & Partners, one of India's top law firms. In 2006, AZB & Partners was awarded the Indian National Law Firm of the Year by the International Financial Law Review. With over 120 lawyers, AZB provides substantive oversight to the legal support services being provided by Bodhi Global.
• The Patni Family is the founder of Patni Computer Systems, a New York Stock Exchange listed company that provides IT infrastructure support in the business outsourcing environment. The Patni involvement brings a high-level approach to data, systems and operational security, as well as client confidentiality. Arihant Patni, an engineer who was educated and trained in the United States, is Bodhi Global's CEO.

What is Bodhi Global's "Global Solution"?

Like major international law firms, Bodhi Global provides legal support services when and where they are required by its clients. Ed Burke, a seasoned litigator from Weil Gotshal & Manges in New York, is Bodhi Global's President. Bodhi Global is building a team of US lawyers from Top 20 law firms to interface with US clients and provide a seamless client experience.
Recently, Bodhi Global announced that it had partnered with De Novo Legal to provide global litigation support services. De Novo Legal is one of the leading US providers of outsourced services for document reviews, with document review facilities in New York, Washington DC, Atlanta and Houston. "Our clients continue to demand cost effective document review solutions and our partnership with Bodhi Global will solidify our vision for providing complete on-site, off-site and off-shore document review services. The global platform will provide our clients with the industry's most cost effective solution to operate document reviews, large and small, wherever required," says Rob Singer, CEO of De Novo Legal.

What Types of Services Does Bodhi Global Provide?

Bodhi Global provides legal support services in the following areas:

• Litigation Support - document review for responsiveness, confidentiality status and privilege; substantive analysis of produced documents; deposition preparation and digesting; fact research for depositions, discovery and trial
  
• Document Review for Corporate Transactions - due diligence in mergers, acquisitions and real estate transactions; Department of Justice "second requests"
  
• Contract Review and Management - generation, review and organization of standardized contracts; creation of company databases to contain key fields
  
• Legal Research/Treatise Updating - legal, regulatory and statutory research to update legal treatises; case summaries
  
• Real Estate Services - lease abstracting, title searches, due diligence
  

What Types of Work Has Bodhi Global Done So Far?

In a short span of six months, Bodhi Global has worked on a number of projects in the areas of corporate due diligence, real estate document review, contract analysis and review, and trademark, including the following:

• Corporate due diligence for a large Indian conglomerate who was acquiring a California company
  
• Property due diligence for international real estate firms and banks
  
• Loan document review for micro-financing transactions

How Does Bodhi Global Deploy Technology to Improve Its Services?

With the experience of the Patni companies, Bodhi Global is developing technology that will help its clients gain greater control over corporate transactions and litigation. Here are some examples:

• Working with major US law firm to develop transactional databases for real estate deals that will contain all deal documentation and allow clients to run different types of analyses and generate reports
  
• Working with Washington, DC attorney to update and revise real estate treatise
  
• Working with Washington, DC law firm to develop technology to improve compliance-related tasks for regulated industries
  

What Kind of Training Does Bodhi Global Offer?

Bodhi Global offers on-going and comprehensive training in the following areas:

• Litigation support and discovery training (e.g., review of new e-discovery rules, attorney-client and other privileges, confidentiality designations, review of litigation pleadings and documents); US training provided by Prof. Dan Crane of Cardozo Law School. The Bodhi Global attorneys have also received training on e-discovery software of major vendors.
  
• Legal research skills (including electronic research databases) taught by Naseem Qadeer, a lawyer admitted to practice in both the United States and India
  
• Real estate skills, including lease abstracting and title searches
  
• Legal writing skills, supervised by AZB attorneys and Bodhi Global's US attorneys
  
• Project management and customer services

Can you Explain Bodhi Global's Project Management Protocols?

Bodhi Global assigns a Project Manager in the US and India for each job. The US Project Manager is responsible for first-line communications with the US client and for overseeing any work performed in the US. The India Project Manager is responsible for implementing the client's directions and overseeing any work performed by the attorney team in India. The Project Managers are responsible for performing ongoing quality checks of the work to assure that mistakes are caught and questions are raised and answered quickly, thus increasing efficiency and cost savings over the course of the project.

How Does Bodhi Global Bill Clients for Its Work?

Bodhi Global adopts a flexible approach to billing and will work with its clients to establish a billing regime that makes most sense for the project.

How Did Bodhi Global Choose Its Office Locations?

Bodhi Global's original office is located at Nariman Point, Mumbai. This is one of the financial hubs of India, with close proximity to Bodhi Global's founders. Bodhi Global is opening a new office in Pune, about 100 miles form Mumbai. Pune boasts several highly regarded law schools (two of India's Top 10) and technical institutes, and is ranked as one of the largest and fastest growing technology centers in India. Given the attractive talent pool, low real estate costs and quality of life, Bodhi Global chose Pune as a logical place to grow. The Pune facility will sit up to 270 lawyers.

Is Bodhi Global a Law Firm?

No. Bodhi Global is not a law firm and is not in the business of providing legal advice. Rather, it renders legal support services to law firms and companies under the guidance of bar-admitted lawyers from outside counsel or our clients.