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Old 16-10-2021, 09:01 AM
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Whatever. This is sophistry at its finest. Nokia had complete monopoly over the mobile phone market by the early 2000. No one saw the competition from Apple and the iPhone.
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It isn't sophistry - it seems that way only because you're not a lawyer and will not understand the business of law unless you practice in it

In short, legal advice is a product that doesn't lend itself to offshoring to 3rd world jurisdictions well. Clients aren't paying for a commodity. They're paying for a bespoke product.

At the top end, the sophisticated corporate clients all want to engage a firm/advisor that looks and talks exactly like them, which is why big law firms emulate their clients so much.

You may ask, what about the offshoring processes like how the Big 4 accountancy firms have done it, e.g. EY's Global Delivery Services in India?

This isn't likely to happen in law because law is less process-driven, and much more advisory and relational-driven than audit or tax services or the other kinds of services that EY, KPMG, etc offer.

Sure, parts of the legal advisory "product" are process-driven and can be offshored/automated, but those components are not done by lawyers to begin with. It is those paralegal and auxiliary legal jobs that will be at risk, I will grant you that.

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