A one-day conference on the International Outsourcing of the Legal Profession is being organized by Berkeley’s Institute for Global Challenges and the Law, at the Boalt Hall, School of Law, University of California, in ten days time on Friday, April 25 from 9am-5pm.
The venue will be The Bancroft Hotel, 2680 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94704.
It is hoped that the conference will initiate an increased volume of public dialogue on the outsourcing of legal work and the hidden costs.
Sponsored by The Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT) and The Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy (BCLBE), the event will tackle several issues with regard to legal outsourcing such as the type of legal work being outsourced, to whom it is being outsourced, and the impact outsourcing will have “on the elite guild nature of the legal profession and on U.S. employment as a whole”.

Some of the speakers will be Raj Abhyanker LLP, Robert Barr, UC Berkeley, Connie Brenton, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Kunoor Chopra, LawScribe, Inc., J. Bradford DeLong, UC Berkeley, Bart Eppenauer, Microsoft Corporation and Andrew Guzman, UC Berkeley.
The panelists will share their experiences and apprehensions and there will be plenty of opportunity for discussions.
It is hoped that this will help those concerned make informed decisions about whether or not they should outsource.
To find out more about the conference visit :
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/centers/gcl/outsource/