Tusker outsources to India; $25 an hour for an attorney Austin Business Journal - by Jean Kwon Staff Writer
When Austin-based software company Bluecurrent Inc. went up against Dell Inc. in a trade secret lawsuit over a year ago, it had a fighting chance -- thanks to its lawyers in India.
When Austin-based software company Bluecurrent Inc. went up against Dell Inc. in a trade secret lawsuit over a year ago, it had a fighting chance -- thanks to its lawyers in India.
Tusker Group LC, hired by Bluecurrent's attorneys, reviewed over 70 million pages plundered from both companies' computers during the exhaustive discovery phase of litigation. The locally based company employs lawyers in India to perform litigation document review.
As a result, Bluecurrent, which settled with Dell [Nasdaq: Dell] last year for an undisclosed sum, spent five to 10 times less than what it would have cost to use domestic attorneys.
"We needed to be creative to leverage the amount of money the client had to commit to litigation and get the most bang for the buck," says Jay Ellwanger, a partner at boutique firm DiNovo Price Ellwanger LLP who led Bluecurrent's case. "This was one way of doing that."
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