Earlier this week, Indian legal process outsourcing company Fronterion LLC launched the Legal Process Outsourcing Resource Center. The Resource Center Purports to be a “[c]omplete source for leading-edge content and online resources relating to the ethics of legal outsourcing.” It’s not.
The most significant area in which the Resource Center comes up short is in its [...]

Last fall, I wrote about the risks that lawyers take when they outsource work to foreign legal process outsourcing companies. The primary risk I focused on wasn’t the possibility that the foreign provider might violate confidentiality or conflict of interest rules: it was the risk that the LPO company would produce substandard work.
My last [...]

I’ve taken a fair amount of heat for pointing out that ABA Formal Op. 08-451, which states (with some important caveats) that foreign legal outsourcing is ethical, is actually good news for independent US-based contract lawyers because the same principles that allow firms to send legal work overseas also allow law students and graduates awaiting [...]