From the Movie, "Night of the Living Dead" (original)
Rapidly growing legal process outsourcing outfit Pangea3 is truly seeing the world as one continent for its cut rate services. After gobbling up attorney work in the United States and the United Kingdom, Pangea3 is hungry for even more growth. The latest target for its globalization is the Australian Bar.
It always starts with the messy “back office” work, which is quickly dispatched to India for purportedly humongous savings. How long before the gutting of the ranks of overpriced Australian biglaw associates begins? It always starts innocuously enough, but soon becomes a giant sucking sound with layoffs and competition for work with unlicensed Indian attorneys, whose services are offered at third world rates. From the Bar and Bench,
Kamlani said, “We are in the process of developing a team and a relationship plan with Advent and initiating integrated service offerings in order to obtain best possible results”. It is interesting to see LPO companies looking beyond the traditional US or UK legal markets for opportunities.The Australian legal market although smaller than its western counterparts, offers similar per project billing rates as that of the UK and US.
Australian law firm revenues are supposed to be similar to that of the same size US law firms thereby providing a good opportunity for the LPOs to tap into this geography.
Much like zombies in Night of Living Dead, the first mindless converts having begun tearing the flesh from the Australian Bar. They’re coming to get you, Oz! Let’s hope they wake up down under and don’t sell out their profession the way the ABA has here in the USA.
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