The Hindu : New Jersey law firms to outsource from India

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Thursday, Mar 25, 2004

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New Jersey law firms to outsource from India

WASHINGTON, MARCH 24. The backlash in the U.S. over outsourcing is not preventing law firms in New Jersey from "exporting'' legal projects to India.

New Jersey law firms, such as Sills, Cummis, Epstein & Gross, said they were considering outsourcing to India the coding and organising of documents for major litigation cases.

"Most legal exporting seems to be going to India,'' the Newark Star Ledger reported.

"Your will, the legal research for your mortgage or the proof-reading of your lawsuit could soon come with a Done in India label,'' the Ledger cautioned its readers.

The highly educated legal workforce in India will "work for less and get research and other support work done while American lawyers sleep,'' it said.

A law consulting company in Somerset, Hildebrandt International, is in talks to open an office in India to handle back-office work and litigation support for US firms.

The U.S. law firms are taking tentative steps toward outsourcing transcription, legal research and document management for trials to cut costs, the report added.

Meanwhile, reports on outsourcing continued to hit the U.S. media. The Miami Herald in a report on Indian software major Infosys Technologies said the company is the "epicentre'' of outsourcing revolution and "showcases India's aspirations to become a powerhouse in the global economy.''

The Times in a report said six to seven jobs could be created in Virginia to handle the 100,000 calls a month that are now made to India by the state's 195,000 food-stamp recipients.

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