The Once and Future State of Outsourcing

by | August 31, 2005 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Strategy, Technology strategy

Joy London has a post quickly
summarizing the current and projected future state of outsourcing
legal services—in
particular to India.  While the future projections come
from consultants with, the cynical might say, an interest
in generating excitement about the numbers, they forecast
35,000 "US law jobs" moving to India by 2010 and just over
twice that number by 2015.   Does "US law jobs"
strike you as a fuzz-phrase?  (A:  Yes.)  Are
these Bates-stamping clerks and digital-scanning jockeys,
or AmLaw 100 partner equivalents? 

My guess is that for the duration of the careers
of most of you reading this, it will not be the latter.  Still,
something to be watched. 

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