An article from delawareonline discusses DuPont’s continued use of offshore resources to perform legal services. According to the experts, most U.S. companies will rely on their U.S. lawyers for the specialized skills and high-level legal writing and appearance in court. DuPont, however, is “freeing up some of its lawyers from tedious document review . . . so that those lawyers can pursue other legal cases that it may have had to settle or ignore because they simply didn’t have time or would have been too expensive.” Tom Sager, DuPont’s Assistant General Counsel, probably caused a number of U.S. lawyers to sit up and take notice with his statement that “Companies like DuPont can’t be satisfied with using the providers down the street.”

U.S. Losing Legal Work to Overseas Firms [delawareonline]