SLASSCOM partners BASL

Sri Lanka Association of Software and Service Companies (SLASSCOM,) has partnered with the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) with the aim of developing the capacity of the legal outsourcing industry in Sri Lanka and to promote Sri Lanka as an outsourcing destination for outsourced legal services.

Sri Lanka boasts a large talent pool of qualified lawyers and law graduates with an excellent legal educational system. This includes the local LLB degrees offered by our universities, the programme offered at the Law College including the many lawyers who follow external degrees affiliated to UK universities. In addition, we have a large pool of young lawyers who study overseas such as in the UK, Australian and American universities and who return to the country to work in this profession.

The Sri Lankan legal system has been influenced by the English common law system which means that Sri Lankan lawyers in particular, have the skills to deal with certain legal matters relating to other common law countries.

"We are geared towards driving Sri Lanka to reach our national goal of becoming the number1 industry to lead Sri Lanka to the Knowledge economy. Therefore, it is vital that we focus on building market awareness of our niche capabilities with legal outsourcing services being a center of excellence where Sri Lanka can aim to differentiate ourselves with other outsourcing destinations in the region and compete for excellence. We are happy to note that this MoU will only further strengthen our legal Centre of excellence and we invite companies operating in this industry to join us to take this initiative forward," said Sujiva Dewaraja, Chairman of SLASSCOM regarding this alliance between SLASSCOM and BASL.

The MoU was signed between Sujiva Dewaraja, Chairman SLASSCOM and the President of the BASL, Shibly Aziz, PC.