The Once and Future State of Outsourcing
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.
http://www.bmacewen.com/blog/archives/2005/08/the_once_and_fu.html
