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&lt;p&gt;As clients are demanding more for less, law firms may find LPO more relevant than the LBO in 2009. Slashing legal costs &quot;was emerging as a trend even before the credit crunch; now it is an overriding imperative,&quot; declares Richard Susskind in a look at the &quot;soaring&quot; Indian legal process outsourcing (LPO) industry. For a while now, some law firms have been outsourcing back office (e.g., IT) functions. Increasingly, however, the outsourcing option becomes more attractive for certain (&quot;routine or repetitive&quot;) legal work, such as research, doc review and due diligence. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This past week, as the auto industry bailout battle raged, many wondered why Big Three workers couldn&#39;t accept the same sort of package as their peers working at Toyota plants. LPO companies hire Indian legal graduates with starting salaries at about $7,000. Compare BigLaw&#39;s $160,000 base for first-years doing what often amounts to the same type of work. Is it too late to unionize? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, check out this video of a Kelley Drye partner explaining to an attentive student audience at Cardozo how many of their would-be future jobs are &quot;ripe for outsourcing.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Via the embittered second cousin of ATL, Tom the Temp.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;-posted by brian&lt;/p&gt;

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