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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
I was at the annual outside counsel meeting for my biggest client, and their outside counsel laison was explaining that document review should never been done by a lawyer, and typically should be done somewhere like India.
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I would say that this person has no idea what they are talking about, at least with respect to cases that involve real stakes. I've seen firms and clients take that sort of attitude toward documents, and I've seen how it can cripple them in the ability to wrangle evidence to support their arguments.
I worked on a fairly high stakes case with Howrey representing the other party to the deal. As far as we could tell, there were 8 Howrey partners on the case and two associates. Not surprisingly, nearly all of the actual documentary evidence (that proved successful) came out of our doc review, which was supervised by actual lawyers. Maybe you don't need lawyers doing the first review, but sending it to India to be supervised by people who don't know the case is significantly handicapping your case.
But of course, there is no reason why you need to pay a 30% or more premium to have your case handled on a coast either.
