A recent article in the Chicago Daily Herald discusses the continuing trend of U.S. firms outsourcing legal services. The author notes that this trend is continuing to grow, with law firms and inhouse lawyers using legal outsourcing companies for conducting legal research, performing document reviews, writing due diligence reports of mergers and acquisitions, performing administrative work, and drafting legal documents. Caren Mansfield, President of the Illinois Paralegal Association, recognizes that the outsourcing of legal services is “here to stay”; however, she would like to see U.S. lawyers outsource this type of work to U.S. resources. Regardless, she sees a “bright and promising future for those associated with legal process outsourcing services.”

Legal Research Growing Globally [Daily Herald]