The US state of Connecticut has introduced a bill designed to avoid law firms and corporates from offshoring the drafting, reviewing and analysing of legal documents to workforces overseas. This could impact the legal process outsourcing (LPO) sector in India. LPO players are also worried overly other US says may pick up the cue from Connecticut.
Under the bill, proposed by Connecticut state of affairs representative Patricia Dillon, "unlicensed'' offshore workers who hire in drafting, reviewing or analysing of legal documents for patrons in Connecticut should be trusted with unauthorised practice of law, according to a prediction by The Connecticut Law Tribune.
Sanjay Kamlani, co-CEO of LPO firm Pangea3, said the proposed Bill seeks to stop the flow of high-end and sophisticated legal runs to India. "This is happening at a time when US law firms are increasingly appearing at LPOs strategically, as long-term partners, to offer more values to the clients. A lot of legal work -- from financial services, IT and entertainment sectors -- is beginning to India from New York, New Jersey, California, etc," he said. Some US attorneys familiar among the LPO model own called it "a sloppilydrafted bill'' that ignores the substantial person of principled analysis of issues surrounding legal outsourcing in favour of facile protectionism that won't cure the legal pro fessions real ills.
Rusell A Smith, CEO, Mysore-based LPO firm SDD Global and a registered attorney in the US, said tens of thousands of US para-legals, who, like Indians, are not admitted to the bar, do exactly the same kind of work that the author of the legislation says should just be done by lawyers.
"Even if the legislation is passed, it would be quickly overturned by the courts as an unlawful restraint of trade and interference amidst the constitutional right to contract freely. This plan will ban more US professions than Indian ones,'' he said.
Last few years got lost due to the poor economy, not while corporations aren't bringing in and sent legal work offshore. Protectionism won't bring those jobs back, nor will it reverse the trend in all segments of the domestic economy to a more contingent workforce.
Read More: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/ites/connecticut-introduces-bill-to-prevent-law-firms-from-offshoring-work-to-india/articleshow/7402541.cms
Under the bill, proposed by Connecticut state of affairs representative Patricia Dillon, "unlicensed'' offshore workers who hire in drafting, reviewing or analysing of legal documents for patrons in Connecticut should be trusted with unauthorised practice of law, according to a prediction by The Connecticut Law Tribune.
Sanjay Kamlani, co-CEO of LPO firm Pangea3, said the proposed Bill seeks to stop the flow of high-end and sophisticated legal runs to India. "This is happening at a time when US law firms are increasingly appearing at LPOs strategically, as long-term partners, to offer more values to the clients. A lot of legal work -- from financial services, IT and entertainment sectors -- is beginning to India from New York, New Jersey, California, etc," he said. Some US attorneys familiar among the LPO model own called it "a sloppilydrafted bill'' that ignores the substantial person of principled analysis of issues surrounding legal outsourcing in favour of facile protectionism that won't cure the legal pro fessions real ills.
Rusell A Smith, CEO, Mysore-based LPO firm SDD Global and a registered attorney in the US, said tens of thousands of US para-legals, who, like Indians, are not admitted to the bar, do exactly the same kind of work that the author of the legislation says should just be done by lawyers.
"Even if the legislation is passed, it would be quickly overturned by the courts as an unlawful restraint of trade and interference amidst the constitutional right to contract freely. This plan will ban more US professions than Indian ones,'' he said.
Last few years got lost due to the poor economy, not while corporations aren't bringing in and sent legal work offshore. Protectionism won't bring those jobs back, nor will it reverse the trend in all segments of the domestic economy to a more contingent workforce.
Read More: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/ites/connecticut-introduces-bill-to-prevent-law-firms-from-offshoring-work-to-india/articleshow/7402541.cms
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