<p>Unless someone who has studied law in India qualifies to sit for, takes and passes a U.S. law bar exam in the state in which they wish to practice, these outsourced "laywers" will continue to do nothing more than document review, research and other work not typically performed by U.S. attorneys in sophisticated law practices. Even then, though, all of these kinds of work must ultimately be supervised by U.S. admitted attorneys, who will be held responsible under the ethics and other rules governing the practice of law, for the document review and other work. If it is too difficult for this supervision to take place, I imagine that this kind of outsourcing would have limited applications. The lawyers who may have something to fear from these practices are the "contract" lawyers, who do similar kinds of document review and other work.</p>