Vol. 28, No. 6 #3 (December 2005). FROM THE DESK OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.

• Author: By Mary B. Guthrie

Wyoming Bar Journal

2005.

Vol. 28, No. 6 #3 (December 2005).

FROM THE DESK OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

WYOMING LAWYERDecember 2005/Vol. XXVIII, No. 6FROM THE DESK OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR . . .By Mary B. Guthrie

Like most of you, I get a lot of junk-type mail mixed in with important correspondence. I've gotten pretty good about determining what should be read and what should be tossed. Certainly anything that comes from Nigeria and offers me great wealth is summarily pitched. However, recently a letter from a law firm in India caught my eye. I would like to share that letter with you because it might portend changes that will be made in the practice of law. Dear Colleague:

OUTSOURCING SERVICES TO US ATTORNEYS/LAW FIRMS

Good Morning!

Please excuse me for making this heavy call on your busy time.

By way of introduction, I am an Indian attorney with 31 years experience in all branches of law, presently heading this full service law firm CONSULTA JURIS, headquartered at Mumbai (Bombay), India, and having offices in all the important Indian cities including Bangalore.

We have about thirty attorneys (some of them qualified from US) and fifteen paralegals with us, which is, by Indian standards, remarkable. Quality services at competitive costs is our hallmark.

India, as you know, has now become one of the most important locations for Business Process Outsourcing. I learn that, some of the U.S. attorneys/law firms, have already started, or are on the look out for, outsourcing their non-core processes to India. We are seriously considering branching out into legal support services to the US attorneys/law firms interested in outsourcing such services, as permissible under the relevant laws, to India.

I shall be grateful, if you will kindly arrange for making our availability known to your members so that those interested can contact us directly.

Yours sincerely, M. Prabhakaran

I obviously did not respond to my new Indian friend. However, his letter is instructive, because it demonstrates that the world is changing at a fast pace.

When I read Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty First Century (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), I gained some appreciation of how business can be conducted from any part of the globe. However, I really had not understood how the global economy and particularly outsourcing could...