Law Without Borders

"Adventures in legal services outsourcing to India and beyond."

Author: Russell Smith is president of SDD Global Solutions, headquartered in Mysore, India.

Blawg Related Categories: International Law • Law Firms • Law Practice Management • Outsourcing • India • Consultant

Recent Posts from Law Without Borders

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:…
FROM RHETORIC TO REALITY: U.S. Politics and the Truth About Outsourcing
By Vidya Devaiah Outsourcing is a hot-button issue in the 2008 United States election campaign. Anyone involved in the outsourcing industry has now heard of the pledge by Presidential candidate Barack Obama to “take away…
Jagshemash! Last of the Borat Suits Bounced
And now, an update on what the "Above the Law" blog refers to as "the rapidly growing practice area of Boratlaw." As production counsel for "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation…
Hennessey Now Cooking Up a Class Action
Below is a comment just posted by Joseph Hennessey on this blog. He's the lead lawyer in the case against legal process outsourcing in Washington D.C. federal court, Newman McIntosh & Hennessey vs. Bush, which…
"Thought Leaders": Lose the Newspeak and Doublespeak
I don't know where it's coming from. Could be business schools, BPOs, corporate self-improvement books, or IT drones lacking in basic communication skills, for all I know. In any case, it seems to be spreading…
Lawsuit Against Legal Process Outsourcing, Newman McIntosh & Hennessey vs. Bush, Is Withdrawn
13 days after Acumen Legal Services filed its motion to dismiss the lawsuit against legal process outsourcing to India, filed by a Maryland law firm in the Washington D.C. federal court, the plaintiff law firm,…
American Bar Association "Salutes" Outsourcing of Legal Services
No one seriously expected the American Bar Association to come out against the legal services outsourcing to India, or as many call it, "legal process outsourcing" or "LPO." After all, the ABA historically has been…
Shock, Horror, Stop the Presses – Western Legal Work Being Done in India!
A DAY IN THE LAW I read the news today oh, boy About a law firm gone to India.And though the news was rather blah, Well, I just had to laugh; I knew the world…
Acumen Fights Back
INDIAN LEGAL SERVICES COMPANYCOMPANY MOVES AGAINST U.S.ANTI-OUTSOURCING LAWSUIT INWASHINGTON D.C. FEDERAL COURTAcumen Legal Files Motion to Dismissin Newman McIntosh & Hennessey vs. Bush In a legal case apparently designed by a U.S. law firm to…
Lows and Highs
In part to show how fast things are moving in the small but growing world of legal outsourcing, copied at the bottom of this post is a cover story I wrote 10 months ago for…