Lawyers: First outsourced, now imported by the body

SUNDAY BUSINESS: "Lawyers Wanted: Abroad, That Is," by John Bringardner, New York Times, 23 November 2008.

I know this Western (Brit) lawyer who moved to Baghdad after the invasion and set up a solitary shop, figuring a market would eventually emerge for his services. He's still there and thriving--real frontier economy lawyering. Stunningly cool story. Would make a great TV show, frankly.

Used to be that London was always the big choice for any time abroad by American lawyers looking to strike out on a foreign career, but now "lawyers and analysts say that the most promising places for legal careers are such far-flung locales as Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Hong Kong."

Other big growth spots shown on the jump-page map:

Warsaw

Moscow

Istanbul

Cairo

Riyadh

Almaty

Beijing

Tokyo

Shanghai

Taipei

Bangkok

Singapore

Jakarta

No clearer sign of our frontier-integrating age. A clear case of insourcing counterparty capacity to facilitate growing economic connectivity--both inward from advance countries and outward toward targets of future integration.

Comments

[Michael]

Who else is hearing choirs of angels as they see an opportunity to reduce our excess lawyer population?