Outsourcing the Lawyers
We knew this day has come and it has arrived. Lawyers are having their jobs offshore outsourced:
As an assistant attorney general for New York State, Christopher Wheeler used to spend most of his time arguing in courtrooms in New York City.
Today, he works in a sprawling, unfinished planned suburb of New Delhi, where office buildings are sprouting from empty lots and dirt roads are fringed with fresh juice stalls and construction rubble. At Pangea3, a legal outsourcing firm, Mr. Wheeler manages a team of 110 Indian lawyers who do the grunt work traditionally assigned to young lawyers in the United States — at a fraction of the cost.
India’s legal outsourcing industry has grown in recent years from an experimental endeavor to a small but mainstream part of the global business of law. Cash-conscious Wall Street banks, mining giants, insurance firms and industrial conglomerates are hiring lawyers in India for document review, due diligence, contract management and more.
This is great news for Science & Technology professionals. Why? Because it is the lawyers who enable offshore outsourcing and they are the ones who process foreign guest worker Visas.
They also sue and can help change legislation. Now that their income is threatened, instead of making a buck off of destroying American careers, maybe we'll start to see some real legal action, in favor of the U.S. worker, finally.
That's right attorneys. Your hard work and expensive law school is now going for $13.95/hr. out of India.
Attorneys being outsourced too
An attorney just informed me the other day that his charges were $350/hour. I wondered why Attorney's haven't been outsourced yet. This fee sounded pretty outrageous considering that it seems most everyone's jobs are being outsourced at the moment. My neighbor who works in Finance said his job is day to day because most of the Finance dept. at his company is in the process of being outsourced.
exactly
No one can afford any justice, legally, it's too expensive and that's also due to incomes for everyone else repressed. Same with MDs and now education is only accomplishing to put people in debt.
It's a vicious circle, described as the race to the bottom
I hear people on TV discussing ways to create jobs, but
I never hear anyone saying something as simple as maybe we should just stop all the outsourcing of jobs. It seems I am hearing things like we should finance for small businesses. I don't get it.
Maybe there is somewhere on TV that I am not aware of and is talking about how all the outsourcing might be the problem to why there is such high unemployment right now, but I just haven't seen it.
they won't talk about the obvious
They won't mention offshore outsourcing, guest workers, bad trade agreements or illegals. Not all things can be blamed on this but obviously, canceling all public funded offshore outsourcing contracts, putting a freeze on any new guest worker visas and enforcing the law to stop using illegals, confronting China, revamping trade agreements would go a long way in getting some jobs.