Michelle Vega spent more than six years as a litigation associate at Kelley Drye & Warren in New York before leaving the firm to care for a sick relative. When Vega started looking for a job a year later, she wanted to take her skills in a new direction.
A friend at a legal staffing company told her about an opening that offered management experience outside the law firm environment, but required a one-year stint in India. Vega was immediately intrigued and asked the friend to submit her résumé. When outsourcing company Mindcrest Inc. offered Vega a senior manager job in May 2008, she accepted and moved her life to Pune, India, by month's end.
"I like to travel and have always been interested in the world outside New York," said the 35-year-old Brooklyn native, who is still living in Pune. "I wanted to be able to use my legal skills and training, but was not necessarily interested in practicing anymore."
Although some U.S. lawyers view outsourcing to India with dread -- particularly vulnerable contract attorneys doing document review -- for a lucky few, India offers an opportunity to get management experience, more client contact and a stake in a growing area of the legal business, not to mention a travel adventure. Companies that aid law firms and law departments in outsourcing legal work to India, including Mindcrest, Pangea3 LLC and SDD Global Solutions Pvt. Ltd., are recruiting lawyers with U.S. professional experience to train and supervise their expanding work forces in India. So, while India may be sapping some work from the United States, it's giving back a little now.
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Source: Law.com
By: Lynn Marek
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