First thing we do, let's outsource the lawyers.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills

For a moment at least, a recent headline in The Wall Street Journal boosted my hopes that action would be taken to stop the flow of jobs overseas. It read, "Next on the Outsourcing List, Job Shift to Cheaper Countries Could Threaten More Careers: Analysts, Architects, Attorneys." If the lawyers are threatened, I reasoned, action by politicians, so many of whom are also members of the bar, would quickly follow. But my...