Legal Outsourcing in Canada

“Outsourcing slow to catch on in Canada” by Daryl-Lynn Carlson in yesterday’s National Post features Rob Hyndman and his view that when it comes to outsourcing and the associated savings, the big firms have “got their heads in the sand.” Rob, who is a noted blawger at robhyndman.com, says:

he regularly achieves savings of as much as 50% for his clients outsourcing legal services to India. He sends mostly commercial contract work to an Indian law firm, the name which he guards as a “trade secret.”

The article goes on to quote a number of practitioners at the big firms who are skeptical of the practice, to say the least. But Bruce Noble, who is president of the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association, a group for in-house counsel, says “As long as there’s money to be saved, it is something we’ll have to look at.”