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**HairyArsedBloke** · 13 July 2009, 19:28

YES

Not that it applies to me any more, but this is exactly what is needed.

A lot of MPs are lawyers and it is only once their own get shafted will they ever understand what is happening to the rest of the people and possibly do something about it.

**RichardCranium** · 13 July 2009, 19:29

Would it be wrong of me,

MORE than a thousand London lawyers could be made redundant by the end of the year because their jobs will be outsourced to India, it was claimed today.

to say I don't care?

I mean, I'll appear to care, but in reality, I won't.

**Alf W** · 13 July 2009, 19:53

About 1,000 lawyers are working on London-based contracts, including for the 2012 Olympics

Aaaah, so these will be some of the jobs that the 2012 Olympics was going to create with the lottery money and state handouts then?

**GreenerGrass** · 13 July 2009, 19:59

I wonder if they are handling this case:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...ion/article.do

I love this bit

Miss Popa, of Hampstead, earned £41,000 a year as a forensic accountant. She claims that the discrimination prevented her becoming a PwC partner earning at least £500,000 a year plus bonuses.

**Menelaus** · 13 July 2009, 20:02

Originally posted by RichardCranium View Post

Would it be wrong of me,

to say I don't care?

I mean, I'll appear to care, but in reality, I won't.

Not only "no" but "hell, no".

That having been said, expect the Law Society to start having kittens about this. The Indian plenty cheapness legal beagles won't have done a contract in a UK firm meaning that they'll claim (wrongly) that the value to be had from them is reduced.

Who next for outsourcing? The accountancy profession, perchance?

**Menelaus** · 13 July 2009, 20:03

Originally posted by GreenerGrass View Post

I wonder if they are handling this case:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...ion/article.do

I love this bit

FFS - £41K at PwC? Might I suggest - without wishing to appear unkind - that she's obviously a bit sh!t at her job?

**BrilloPad** · 13 July 2009, 21:00

How long before the whole country is outsourced?

**Board Game Geek** · 13 July 2009, 23:26

From the comments on the link from the 1st post :

I have just been made redundant from my job as a legal secretary from a Top 100 law firm. At the moment I am in a state of shock because of this at the moment. I have made contact with at least 12 agencies and have been told there are no jobs around. I have worked for 40 years and this is the first time I will sign on as unemployed and it scares me. As does the prospect of losing my house. Outsourcing work to India is not good. The language etc will probably create more work for those in the London originating office. It would probably be a lot easier to do it in London in the first place. The main reason for all this is obvious. £6,000 for a lawyer in Mumbai £70,000+ for a London lawyer. Need I say more?

- Jan. Need, Romford

As I said in another thread, there is always someone willing to do the job for a lot less than you, and in this case, it looks as if the UK Lawyers have priced themselves out of the marketplace.

By not negotiating a reduction in their fees, they are now on precisely £0 instead of perhaps 20-30K. Even 7K a year is better than £0.

It's harsh but this is the economic model that is evolving.

Still think globalisation is a good idea ?

**Clippy** · 14 July 2009, 02:00

Keep up at the back!

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