Indian Legal System:
There are concerns about how can a foreign trained lawyer do the work of a US business; does an Indian lawyer or paralegal know, say, the US common law, the law in general and its origin, various court systems? How proficient is he/she in legal application, reasoning, research, and documenting relevant facts for a lawsuit?

The fact is that Indian education, coupled with sound training, produces competent lawyers. Most work is however "back-office" and does not involve direct client contact. Sufficient supervision and lower costs more than offset these concerns. Legal education in India starts on two planks – a five-year full time course after 12 years of schooling (12+5) or 3 years of post-graduation course after 3 years of graduation (12+3+3). On qualification, the incumbent can style him/herself as an Advocate (Bachelor of Laws, LLB). Educational skills range from peripheral to rigorous. The medium of education is English, with most laws rooted in English common law. The study encompasses a wide range of commercial, procedural, corporate, and financial laws. A Bachelor of Law may study further for 2 years to qualify as a Master of Laws (LLM). Neither LLB nor LLM requires any simultaneous training with a law firm. Vacation placements with company law departments and firms are however very common.

The Law Society, UK has raised concerns about secrecy and client-confidentiality – saying that if an English law firm sourced out work, liability will still remain with it. Some believe that clients may not be happy to know that the firm they retain does not do their work. On the contrary the sourcing out would greatly help in power outages, business disruption, and disaster recovery in these overseas jurisdictions – not to mention the primary.

The Advantages Of Legal Process Outsourcing:
In coming years, there is an expectation to see more and more legal work getting outsourced to offshore countries -- most likely former colonies of England with English-speaking workers, lawyers versed in common law, and highly educated populations. In particular, companies with big clients list will be moving more legal jobs offshore. Outsourcing production of goods (including legal advice) ultimately lowers costs to the benefit of everyone. Here are a few predicted advantages that seem likely to arise from the move towards using offshore lawyers:

• For legal publishers, those who look abroad will lower their cost of producing goods, raising their profitability and increasing their ability to compete against less nimble publishers.
  
  
• For subscribers to those legal publications (i.e., American lawyers) they will see some of the savings by companies like lowering of subscription fees. Moreover, these firms may even take a a clue and begin farming out low-margin legal work to smaller American law firms and outsourcing some of their own "litigation support" functions abroad.
  
  
• Translation, transcription, and document management services will all begin moving to low-cost providers in India and elsewhere, boosting the law firms' profits and enabling them to lower the legal fees they charge. These lower fees should, in turn, trickle down further to benefit the law firms' clients.
  
  
• The double-savings to the American companies that buy the legal services will then trickle down further to the great mass of American consumers of the companies' products.

The bottom line so is that the legal process outsourcing will make the cost of doing business extremely low and the caliber of the work product extremely high, which will have impact on almost all the spheres and all businesses in general.