September 13, 2006
Privacy Concerns on Legal Outsourcing
In a recent post titled "Law Firms to Benefit from Outsourcing", I had mentioned about the benefits of legal outsourcing. Now there are some concerns over the legal process outsourcing. Outsourcing certain types of legal work to offshore destinations has become a common practice in the United States. However, there are already concerns about how it would affect issues such as privacy. By outsourcing legal work, law firms are dealing with people in another country who are not subject to the US or Canadian law. That might create many problems in future.
The overseas lawyers are not very close to the work produced. However, they remain responsible for it. Outsourcing has serious limitations, as there are several limits imposed by privacy legislation and solicitors. Another concern is regarding the authority of the client company over the offshore workers. Since they are contractual workers, the company may not be able to dictate its terms and finally end up with heavy losses.
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