Comments on: Offshore My Job? Not Bloody Likely! http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2007/12/offshore-my-job-not-bloody-likely.html the art and science of criminal defense trial lawyering Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:42:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: iq_two http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2007/12/offshore-my-job-not-bloody-likely.html/comment-page-1#comment-752 iq_two Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:49:00 +0000 http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/?p=420#comment-752 In Pasadena, CA, a newspaper is taping the city council meetings and sending them to India to have Indian reporters write the stories. The problem with that is the same as there would be with outsourcing lawyers- the people in India don't know the context and background. But they've already started doing it. In Pasadena, CA, a newspaper is taping the city council meetings and sending them to India to have Indian reporters write the stories. The problem with that is the same as there would be with outsourcing lawyers- the people in India don’t know the context and background. But they’ve already started doing it.

]]> By: Anonymous http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2007/12/offshore-my-job-not-bloody-likely.html/comment-page-1#comment-747 Anonymous Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:49:00 +0000 http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/?p=420#comment-747 Nasim Nicholas Taleb in his book The Black Swam, says, among other things, on the topic of forming stereotypes, that we usually form groups and think all Americans to have the same attributes or all women are same, while in reality this is not be the case.<br/><br/>Extending that argument, one may comment there is a lot in common between a lawyer in US and a lawyer in India.You know where this can be taken forward to.<br/><br/>I think Taleb is bang on.<br/><br/>Anon. Nasim Nicholas Taleb in his book The Black Swam, says, among other things, on the topic of forming stereotypes, that we usually form groups and think all Americans to have the same attributes or all women are same, while in reality this is not be the case.

Extending that argument, one may comment there is a lot in common between a lawyer in US and a lawyer in India.You know where this can be taken forward to.

I think Taleb is bang on.

Anon.

]]> By: shg http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2007/12/offshore-my-job-not-bloody-likely.html/comment-page-1#comment-744 shg Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:45:00 +0000 http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/?p=420#comment-744 Sorry, but I just thought of something else. We argue here all the time about Defenders vs. Pretenders. There are better and worse lawyers, as we all know.<br/><br/>So is there something special about lawyers in India? Are they all fungible? Is any one as good as any other? Should we not care who does work for our clients because every single one of them is fully competent?<br/><br/>We care very much about the work we do, and our clients care very much about our doing their work. Does this suddenly fall by the wayside when work is shipped off to Bangalore? Sorry, but I just thought of something else. We argue here all the time about Defenders vs. Pretenders. There are better and worse lawyers, as we all know.

So is there something special about lawyers in India? Are they all fungible? Is any one as good as any other? Should we not care who does work for our clients because every single one of them is fully competent?

We care very much about the work we do, and our clients care very much about our doing their work. Does this suddenly fall by the wayside when work is shipped off to Bangalore?

]]> By: shg http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2007/12/offshore-my-job-not-bloody-likely.html/comment-page-1#comment-743 shg Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:30:00 +0000 http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/?p=420#comment-743 If you haven't come across someone at a call center whose accented English presents a problem then you haven't called any major American company's customer service lately.<br/><br/>But that aside, you hit the point. Would you want that sentence in a brief or memo to a judge? Would the judge chastise himself for not being sufficiently British to understand it, or would he throw your memo in the file and your client in the can? <br/><br/>The point is that India is not, at least not now, a suitable substitute for all things done here, and that neither low cost nor hard promotion changes that fact. Some things, sure. Our thing, no. If you haven’t come across someone at a call center whose accented English presents a problem then you haven’t called any major American company’s customer service lately.

But that aside, you hit the point. Would you want that sentence in a brief or memo to a judge? Would the judge chastise himself for not being sufficiently British to understand it, or would he throw your memo in the file and your client in the can?

The point is that India is not, at least not now, a suitable substitute for all things done here, and that neither low cost nor hard promotion changes that fact. Some things, sure. Our thing, no.

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