Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Legal Outsourcing Pulls Western Talent to India

Many legal outsourcing firms have offices around the world to interact with clients, but keep the majority of their employees in India; some also have a stable of lawyers in the Philippines….basic legal support work can successfully be done offshore very cost effectively with no quality problems

Now, to win new clients and take on more sophisticated work, legal outsourcing firms in India are actively recruiting experienced lawyers from the West.

Employees at legal outsourcing companies in India are not allowed by Indian law to give legal advice to clients in the West, no matter their qualifications. Instead, legal outsourcing companies perform a lot of the functions that a junior lawyer might do in a U.S. law firm

Click on the following for more details:  Legal Outsourcing Pulls Western Talent to India - NYTimes.com

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