Category: Outsourcing

If you view offshoring legal work as limited to low-value, repetitive work, think again. I recently spoke with the co-founders of legal Indian offshore service Pangea3, which has already moved beyond the routine.   Co-founders David Perla and Sanjay Kamlani say they help companies with...

Fellow blogger Joy London of excited utterances and I have assembled a list of outsourced legal services.   Joy and I will jointly maintain the list, which is also available from the Resources pull-down menu on my main web site. We did this because we...

Lawyers may be safe from offshoring, at least for a while longer. That’s my conclusion after talking to Alok Aggarwal, co-founder of Evalueserve (EVS), a company in India that helps US companies write patent applications. I had a very interesting conversation with Alok a few...

Outsourcing Innovation is the cover story of the current issue of Business Week (March 21, 2005). It reports that major companies now outsource R&D, not just manufacturing. Does this have implications for the legal market?  I think so. Not long ago, US companies viewed outsourcing...

American Lawyer magazine reports in Briefed in Bangalore (November 2004) on more examples of outsourcing legal work to India. At the same time, at least one US-based company is promoting outsourcing services based on being in the US and using US citizens.  The article notes...

The Executive Director of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, James Lantonio, reports in an article in Legal IT that his firm’s experiment with offshoring word processing is successful so far.  A key factor in the firm’s decision to outsource word processing to India was the...

Sending work offshore to India has been a staple of the general and the legal press. Now comes an example of a large company relying on lawyers in the African island-country of Mauritius.  The Corporate Legal Times (September 2004) reports in The Mauritius Solution that...

Legal publication The Recorder reports in Outsourcing Reaches Corporate Counsel (8/25/04) that more inhouse counsel are finding ways to use offshore labor. Separately, a recent Business Week article discusses some extraordinary security measures Indian outsourcers are taking that might allay some concerns about confidentiality and...