Some Fundamental Questions Concerning Legal Outsourcing
In an article about
Total Attorneys we had a small part concerning Legal Outsourcing and the
problems related to it. Legal Outsourcing and especially Foreign Legal
Outsourcing as all the other outsourcing industries is experiencing a boost
right now due to the world crisis, so let us take a deeper look into its
working scheme and various things related to it.
A very important
question is the question of quality. Europe
and North America have great law schools and
thousands of experienced attorneys. But if we take the most popular outsourcing
countries like India,
there are no guarantees that the local workers are qualified enough to do a
good research work or paperwork. Without proper experience and education they
could easily miss some important details that a Canadian lawyer would never
miss. Of course some outsourcing companies already have years of experience and
do everything to prevent their employees to steal or sell information, but the
whole situation is still very shaky and just one big scandal could ruin the
whole industry.
Is it okay to pass
paperwork to people who might even not be familiar with the situation that the
case is revolving around? In case of banking software for example a bad program
can be fixed and it will cost only a small amount of money for client
compensation. In case of poorly written law documents it will be a destroyed
attorney reputation and that is very hard to fix or compensate. The law firms
are often seduced by the business and money part if this working scheme and
mostly forget the ethical issues. Also one of the biggest problems is the
possible breach of security. Most of the attorneys work is connected with some
personal things and private information. With documents worked on in India or
somewhere else, the information or some part of it will become available for a
third party company, which is in reality not responsible for anything. The
worst thing that an employer can do is end his partnership with the outsourcing
company.
Lots of attorneys also
view Legal Outsourcing in a negative way from being a trend to being
unacceptable working scheme for any company in the law field. The most
important things for an attorney are name and reputation. When someone comes
with a problem they require the wisdom, experience and knowledge of the exact
person and most probably they won’t be satisfied that some parts of their case
even such minor thing as paperwork is done on the other part of the globe. On
the other hand any industry worldwide wants to spend less on production and it
is normal to outsource the simplest parts of the working process. For many
attorneys outsourcing is way to save first of all the money of their clients.
But in such important field as law, where sometimes lives are on the line, any
kind of outsourcing must be strategically planned. Still there are a large
number of law firms that outsource and have no problems with it.
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