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Attorneys Find New Opportunities with Legal Outsourcing Firms

published June 04, 2011

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However, according to the June 3rd nytimes.com article, ''Legal Outsourcing Firms Creating Jobs for American Lawyers'', outsourcing firms are actually helping the cause.

How?

Essentially, while the pay is still lower than compared to what the big firms might pay, per the article, the hook for outsourcing is it generally pays better than temporary work, and of course, better than no work at all. Additionally, cheaper American lawyers are a bargain, and attractive to clients who don't want to offshore legal work.

Bearing that in mind, outsourcing companies are recruiting students right out of law school, as well as from temporary legal services firms. To make the jobs more competitive, other benefits can come with the territory, like management opportunities, which might not be available at a larger firm for years.

Sanjay Kamlani, co-chief executive of Pangea3, a legal outsourcing firm with offices in New York and Mumbai was quoted as saying in the nytimes.com article: ''If we're going to deliver a fantastic client experience, the only way to do it is to have an onshore facility.''

Pangea3 opened an office near Dallas, Texas in the last year. Lawyers working in the office focus on tasks that for various reasons, some due to logistics and some due to knowledge of American law, are more easily accomplished in the United States, such as military contract issues and patent reviews.

Integreon has lawyers and paralegals working in 17 offices around the world, with six in the United States, including New York and Washington, D.C. According to the nytimes.com article, the company hopes to increase its United States employee total from 500 to 600 by year end.

It's estimated that legal outsourcing companies employ approximately 16,000 people worldwide, per Edward Brooks, founder of the LPO Program, which matches clients with legal outsourcing companies.

Cassandra Burke Robertson, an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University's school of law, explained in the nytimes.com article that though legal outsourcing companies aren't the same as a traditional law firm, they offer a career option that shouldn't be ignored.

published June 04, 2011

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