The Ethics of Legal Process Outsourcing

Abstract

This paper examines the ethical requirements to legal process outsourcing with a specific focus on the ethical requirements of a Virginia lawyer wishing to outsource to India. The paper examines the duties of competence, confidentiality, conflict of interest, and others, in order to determine to what extent a lawyer could comply with his or her ethical requirements while much of the legal process entitled to ethical protection proceeds thousands of miles away.