India Lures Corporate Outsourcing

From: The National Law Journal, October 15, 2008

While you might expect the production of a button-down shirt to be outsourced to Guadalajara, most lawyers would not expect their caseloads to be shipped overseas. Should lawyers worry about outsourcing? If you answer “yes,” you are probably a litigator dealing with electronic data discovery and the 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.  According to the August Socha/Gelbmann survey, 2007 commercial expenditures on EDD topped $2.7 billion, up 43 percent in one year. They are expected to hit $4.6 billion by 2010.  While forensics tools are more sophisticated and can winnow down massive productions, costs have risen both in the literal dollars spent as well as the intellectual capital needed.

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