Outsourcing Times

October 15, 2004

Outsourcing Lawyers

The latest trend of outsourcing white-collar jobs involves sending routine legal work offshore. Many U.S. Fortune 500 companies are outsourcing work performed by attorneys abroad to countries such as India, South Korea, and Australia to lower costs.

According to CNN:

General Electric, the country's fifth-largest corporation, has taken the idea the farthest of any company and set up a subsidiary in India that employs about 30 lawyers.

Smelling opportunity, a handful of companies have sprung up in recent years, both in the U.S. and abroad, that sell outsourced legal services.

One of them, a Chicago-based outfit called Mindcrest sells services like document management and research that feed at the bottom of the legal profession's food chain.

Read more: Outsourcing the lawyers

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