Law Firms Are Starting to Adopt Outsourcing

Article in the New York Times — Law Firms Are Starting to Adopt Outsourcing, by Julie Cresswell. 

    For years, outsourcing has been a dirty word inside the world of white-shoe law firms.

    While certain law firms hired companies to handle travel or records storage, most
    drew the line at sending client billing or confidential documents out of their offices,
    let alone out of the country.

    A number of large law firms, though, are starting to tiptoe onto far-flung shores.

    The latest is Clifford Chance, one of the largest law firms in the world with 29
    offices in 20 countries, which will announce plans today to consolidate and move big
    chunks of its administrative functions like accounting and technological support to an
    operation in Delhi, India, by next spring.

    The shift to India could eventually result in up to $18 million a year in savings, the
    law firm estimates.

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