This is from an article from The Lawyers Weekly, which is actually a Canadian publication. It is mainly about the expansion of the World Wide Web, but I found some interesting comments about the outsourcing of legal services to India.
"Outsourcing legal work is not a new phenomenon. Back in 1995 in the U.S., a 34-lawyer Dallas-based litigation firm was the first trailblazer to begin outsourcing some of its legal work. What Web 2.0 will do is accelerate and expand this trend. Already many major companies have jumped on the legal outsourcing bandwagon, including Microsoft, Cisco Systems and Sun Microsystems. Forrester Research, a consultancy group, projects that by 2015, 79,000 U.S. legal services jobs will be outsourced to India."
Wow. I don't know whether I am more amazed that 79,000 jobs North American legal service jobs will be in India, or the fact that they actually came up with the figure "79,000." What kind of 'consultancy' group is this? Are they sure it isn't 77,000? Or maybe it is 83,000? My guess is that the final number will be 81,234 legal service jobs, but that is just me. Sadly, they probably got paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for that sort of top notch research.
Isn't there a country somewhere the world where that sort of in depth research could have been done for much cheaper?
I wonder...
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