More on Outsourcing Trends in the Legal Field

Thanks to Workforce Insights for the pointer to this article from CNNMoney.com, “Outsourcing the lawyers: Add attorney to the growing list of white-collar jobs being shipped overseas. How far will it go?” According to the article, “[t]his year 12,000 legal jobs moved offshore — less than one percent of the total — according to Forrester Research, a Cambridge, Mass.-based market research firm.” By 2015, Forrester predicts the job losses in the legal field will increase to 79,000, with just over half being attorney positions.