<p>Why do I keep getting this sinking feeling that our kids will not have as many opportunities as our generation had.</p>
<p>seems the next wave of cost cutting involves document reviews in India.</p>
<p>I'll try to link the article up from the Washington Post</p>
<p>Haha. It just get worse.</p>
<p>If foreign lawyers are performing legal work it perhaps it could be seen as an ethical violation - as in the unauthorized practice of law?</p>
<p>Don't forget, though, that if your kids are either working for these companies in another capacity or buying products/services from these companies or investing in stocks of these companies, their reducing their costs does have a benefit. Taken in the aggregate, this isn't necessarily a bad thing -- although, of course, it's troubling for American lawyers who now lose market power. (And, don't forget, too -- people in India have a right to work, too.)</p>
<p>Point is- the entire nature of "Work" is going through incredible changes that will have a total affect on the American workers way of life. It also will change the nature of our global economy.</p>
<p>Now that these massive sociological and economic changes are beginning to affect the Professional class, it will be interesting to see how this all plays out. When layoffs or downsizing affected union/factory workers there was never much of an outcry. Now when these changes affect doctors (HMO'S), lawyers, MBA's, there is going to be a whole lot of whining going on--</p>
<p>A great deal of document review in the US is performed by people who are not attorneys.</p>
<p>The market for services is increasingly a global one, but that's not inevitably a bad thing for Americans. When one of my colleagues left an Asian branch office of my former employer, I replaced her for fourteen months (until I got tired of working nights).</p>