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Lawyers have always got one eye on who holds the risk regarding professional negligence claims - if offshore companies are willing to assume this risks and are insured then I can see them being pretty popular for some kinds of work.

I can imagine some pretty interesting international litigation arising from this!

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From the article:

"Employees at legal outsourcing companies in India are not allowed by Indian law to give legal advice to clients in the West, no matter their qualifications. Instead, legal outsourcing companies perform a lot of the functions that a junior lawyer might do in a American law firm."

Given that they're not giving legal advice, I can't see them assuming the risk of professional negligence claims.

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