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Legal Blog Watch: "Pressure to Cut Costs Drives More Work to India"
The statistics in this article are grim, if you are a US based major law firm. I am reminded of the 2008 Presidential Summit at the Annual Meeting of the New York State Bar Association. One of my co-panelists, Mary C. Daly, the Dean of St. John's Law School in Jamaica, New York, who, unhappily passed away a few days ago, emphatically said, to the surprise of many in the audience, that no serious law firm could ignore outsourcing more routine legal work to India. There were some caveats, of course, but the need to cut costs would drive the process she said. Now we are talking about the loss of 35,000 legal jobs within the span of a bit more than a year and 79,000 in a bit more than six years. I think this is even faster than Dean Daly envisioned.