Category: Outsourcing

Business Week reports in Subcontinental Drift (1/16/06, $) that a growing number of Westerners go to India to work for outsourcing companies. Are lawyers next?  The article notes that “firangis – or foreigners – have always been part of the Indian outsourcing scene. But until...

Offshoring legal services is a hot topic, covered by the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Market researcher Forrester estimated (according to the Economist) that 12,000 legal jobs had moved to India by 2004. A new report, however, concludes that the trend is not...

A recent New York Times article suggests that law firms should worry about corporations outsourcing legal research. Is this right?  Even Law Firms Join the Trend to Outsourcing (NYTimes, 1/13/06, $) by Jonathan D. Glater says of legal research outsourcing that the “development may be...

Growth in offshoring legal work appears to continue, at least judging by the most recent update to the list of outsourced legal services that excited utterances and I maintain.  The latest list of legal outsourcing and offshoring contains more than a dozen new entries since...

A Texas lawyer who runs a business saved 90% of legal fees by sending legal research offshore.  A Smaller Legal World in the Fulton County Daily Reporter (12/13/05) reports that a lawyer running a telemedicine company paid local Texas counsel $250,000 for multi-state research. Subsequently,...

Offshoring “is moving up the food chain” reports Kevin G. Hall of Knight Ridder Newspapers in More complex jobs moving offshore.  Tax, public relations, architecture, and high-end research are all examples of functions where companies are seeking help in India and elsewhere offshore according to...

The American Lawyer surveyed the AmLaw 200 firms (see Law Firm Leaders: Conservatively Optimistic). Lots of interesting information on the state of Biglaw; I’ll focus on offshoring.  The article notes that “Firms embrace temp workers — at least domestically. Seventy-seven percent of respondents said their...

I have recently come across a few useful news items concerning offshoring or outsourcing legal services.  Orrick continues to move forward with its outsourcing initiative. A recent press release reports that “Williams Lea, a leading Business Process Outsourcing provider specializing in Corporate Information Solutions, has...