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Legal Research Outsourcing
Your associates bill for judgment, not for finding the case. Magellan provides trained legal researchers who run case law, statutory and regulatory research to your brief, check that the authority still stands, and return findings your attorneys can act on — in your jurisdiction, in your format.
At a Glance
| Best For | Firms losing associate hours to research that follows a known method, and practices with steady research volume that justifies a full-time researcher |
| Core Support | Case law and precedent research · statutory and regulatory research · citation checking · research memoranda · due diligence and background research · docket and court record retrieval |
| Jurisdictions | United States, United Kingdom, Australia and other common-law jurisdictions |
| Delivery | Philippines-based researchers trained to a documented research standard, working in your research platforms and returning findings for attorney review |
| Model | Dedicated researcher, directed by your firm — one full-time seat minimum |
Research is easy to delegate. It usually goes last.
Part of that is habit. Part of it is that research feels like it needs the person who knows the matter — and for the hard questions, it does. But a great deal of legal research is not a hard question. It is a known method applied patiently: find the controlling authority, find what distinguishes it, check nothing has been overturned, write down what you found.
That work does not need an associate's judgment. It needs an associate's method, which is a different thing and one that can be taught, supervised and checked.
Magellan has supported professional-services clients since 2005. Put the patient half of your research with a team that does it every day, and keep your associates on the half that needs them.
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What We Research and Verify
Your Brief, Your Citation Standard
Research is only useful in the form your firm already works in. We take the question as you frame it, work to your citation format, and return findings in the structure your attorneys expect — so the output drops into your file rather than needing translation first.
A Dedicated Researcher, Directed by Your Firm
Your researcher is your staff member in everything but payroll. They work to your brief, take direction and priorities from your team, and get better at your matters the longer they work on them. The minimum engagement is one full-time seat.
Trained to a standard, not assembled from credentials. Our researchers are trained in-house against a documented research method — how to frame the question, where to look, how to verify that authority still stands, and how to write findings up so an attorney can act on them without re-doing the work. The value of that is consistency: the same method, the same verification step, the same memo structure, whoever is at the desk. A team assembled on assorted qualifications cannot promise that.
Working in your platforms, under your control. Researchers work as named users on your firm's existing research subscriptions. Your firm grants access, your firm's account controls apply, and your firm can revoke it at any time. Nothing is copied into a system of ours, and the research your seat produces stays inside your environment.
What each side provides. Your firm provides the question, the priorities, your citation standard, platform access and feedback on early work. Magellan handles recruitment and vetting, employment and HR, secure facilities and IT, and continuity cover when your researcher is away.
Researched by Us, Relied On by Your Attorneys
Findings come back as work product for review. Your attorneys decide what the authority means for the matter, what to argue, and what to file. Nothing we produce is relied on, cited or filed without that review. The research is delegated; the judgment and the reliance stay with the firm.
Why Firms Outsource Legal Research
Confidentiality Built In
Research means access to the question behind the matter — and the trail is revealing in its own right: what a firm searched for says a great deal about the case it is building. Every Magellan staff member signs a confidentiality agreement enforceable under Philippine law before assignment, and access is limited to the researcher working your firm. Because the work happens inside your own subscriptions, that trail stays under your account controls. Magellan operates under ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, and GDPR compliance.
Magellan holds ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, and GDPR compliance — the recognized benchmarks for information security and data protection. See our certifications.
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Network and IT infrastructure sits in secured, IT-only locations. Workstations and servers are password-protected across access levels, and physical data-entry points are disabled to prevent unauthorized transfer.
Every employee signs a confidentiality agreement before job assignment — subject to Philippine law and prosecutable on breach. Access to your data is limited to the team working your account.
Continuous data backup with off-site copies, a co-location plan with a backup center outside a 10-mile radius, and power-blackout protection — so work on your matters doesn't stop when circumstances change.
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