It’s Sunday night in New York, Monday morning in New Delhi. When the New York lawyer opens her laptop the next morning, the project will be complete and the documents will be in her inbox. Legal process outsourcing maximizes speed, saves costs and manages overflow work. But is it ethical? And if it can be ethical, what must the lawyer do to keep it ethical?
Ethics Authorities
Yes, outsourcing legal work is ethical. Indeed, it is old wine in a new bottle. Lawyers have long been associating other counsel in matters and obtaining nonlawyer services from third parties. The ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 recently took up the subject and, in its May 2011 report1 (ABA Report) to the ABA House of Delegates, concluded that it did not need to make any changes in the Model Rules of Professional Conduct to accommodate outsourcing.
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