Wednesday, October 15, 2008

It was only a matter of time

I guess it was only a matter of time before legal work would be outsourced.

The legal profession in the U.S. is already hamstrung by the incentives to create more lawyers.

Law schools are profit centers and make little effort to weed people out. Why would they when they can get three years of tuition?

With competition so fierce, many lawyers find it hard to stay in the profession.

As an attorney myself, I can speak to the difficulty in generating enough revenue to live a decent lifestyle. The well-to-do attorney is a thing of the past.

Outsourcing of legal work is only another nail in the coffin of a lucrative legal career.

Probably the only area of expertise that cannot be outsourced is litigation. Why?
Courts will always need a warm body to be present to argue motions and conduct trials.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I dont quite understand... does it mean that they are getting people from India to do work for them? If so, what is that supposed to accomplish? And I dont quite understand the part that says they cant give legal advice and must be supervised by a US lawyer in court... if they arent supposed to give legal advice, then how are they supposed to defend anyone?

Am I reading this all wrong?