Legal Outsourcing Goes Mainstream -- In USA Today

With three million readers, the largest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, you cannot get more mainstream than USA Today.  That's where "legal process outsourcing" to India is, on page A3.  The headline: "More Legal Legwork Gets Outsourced to India."  Here's a brief excerpt:

"You could call it 'Outsourcing 2.0' or maybe even '3.0.' Now firms are increasingly trying to leverage expertise," says Saikat Chaudhuri, an assistant professor in the business school at the University of Pennsylvania. Legal outsourcing is "growing very, very quickly."

Professional outsourcing jumped from a $260 million industry in 2001 to a $3.05 billion industry in 2007. It will reach a projected $11.2 billion by 2011, says a report from the India Brand Equity Foundation, a public-private partnership. Legal research, which the group didn't track in 2001, contributes about $95 million.

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