Quote of the Week: Clifford Chance on Outsourcing
A trickle of Western lawyers have been heading east to embrace what many of their contemporaries consider a threat…
“I think the toothpaste is out of the tube”
~Mark Ford, director of Clifford Chance’s Knowledge Center based south of New Delhi, on why outsourcing is here to stay. (NYT)
And if there’s no going back, fortune may well favour the brave.
NYT: At Pangea3, a legal outsourcing firm, Mr. Wheeler manages a team of 110 Indian lawyers who do the grunt work traditionally assigned to young lawyers in the United States — at a fraction of the cost.
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American and British lawyers — who might once have turned up their noses at the idea of moving to India, or harbored an outright hostility to outsourcing legal work in principle — are re-evaluating the sector.
Whether you feel threatened by outsourcing or fancy a stint in India helping to grow the industry, the full article is well worth a read.
