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Legal outsourcing going to India
Newhouse News Service
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2467085
Your will, the legal research for your mortgage or the proofreading of your lawsuit could soon come with a "Done in India" label.
Most of the outsourcing of legal work seems to be going to India, where there is a highly educated legal work force that will work for less and get research and other support work done while American lawyers sleep.
Law firms around the United States are taking tentative steps toward outsourcing transcription, legal research and document management for trials to cut costs.
Many in the legal community believe it is a matter of time before sending legal work out of the country becomes a mainstream practice.....
Newhouse News Service
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2467085
Your will, the legal research for your mortgage or the proofreading of your lawsuit could soon come with a "Done in India" label.
Most of the outsourcing of legal work seems to be going to India, where there is a highly educated legal work force that will work for less and get research and other support work done while American lawyers sleep.
Law firms around the United States are taking tentative steps toward outsourcing transcription, legal research and document management for trials to cut costs.
Many in the legal community believe it is a matter of time before sending legal work out of the country becomes a mainstream practice.....
