<p>Firms and corporations have always known that they could hire attorneys to do document review, etc. and many do. Many of my clients hire contract attorneys and many hire staff attorneys - attorneys who for one reason or another are not on the regular associate/partnership track. They go through cycles where they’ll hire more contract workers and then decide it isn’t really cost effective because they can’t bill them out at the rate of associates so they go back to giving the work to associates and around and around. Unemployable attorneys are not a threat to the associates and attorneys that these firms and corporations want to hire.</p>