Law.com‘s article–“Now for Law Firms, Too: Competing for Business Online“–has some very interesting information, but the most surprising, in my opinion, is this statement:
Other GE divisions have sought to reduce legal costs by outsourcing work to lawyers in India.
I have heard of the outsourcing to India in the computer industry and even in the financial services industry, but this is the first I have heard of the outsourcing to India occurring in the legal field. If anyone else has any good information or links on this, I would love to read them and would pass them along to readers.
UPDATE: I should have known that my friend, Carolyn Elefante (solo and small firm practice guru and creator of MyShingle.com) would have the scoop on this issue. You can access previous posts from her site about legal outsourcing to India here and here.