"Clutch in NYC is the WORST agency to deal with- they lie thru their teeth about projects that never start (Skadden, anyone?) and pretend that they actually care about the gutter-sucking loser TTT grads that staff these dead-end sweatshop gigs. Fuck clutch, fuck this entire industry!"
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They also make you fight to get paid. If only we could unionize...
Looks like Clutch, Perla, and the other low life outsources are really doing a good job:
Barred rate now down to $27 an hour:
"Looking for NY/NJ Barred Contract Attorneys who available to start a document review project ASAP!
Here are the details:
Pay Rate: $27
Hours are capped at 40 hours a week
Location: Midtown
Duration: 3-4 months
If interested, please email your resume ASAP!"
Never heard of Perla. Who's offering $27 an hour? And who'd be dumb enough to take it?
Recruiter was too much of a pussy to even put down their actual email address. Can someone please find out which one of the backstabbing shysters is behind this?
Contract Attorneys Needed ASAP
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Reply to: job-732334150@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-06-25, 2:37PM EDT
Looking for NY/NJ Barred Contract Attorneys who available to start a document review project ASAP!
Here are the details:
Pay Rate: $27
Hours are capped at 40 hours a week
Location: Midtown
Duration: 3-4 months
If interested, please email your resume ASAP!
“Being rated the world’s top LPO in the Black Book is a tremendous honor,” said Clutch Group C.E.O. Abhi Shah.
What a bunch of sleazebags!
So they use American attorneys as the trojan horse, then ship as much work to India as possible. Insane!
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/lgl/732435728.html
Another LPO is hiring, ad from NYC Craig's List...
Change the World – lead an India based team of lawyers
Reply to: legal-jobs@hotmail.com
Date: 2008-06-25, 3:53PM EDT
International legal support company which performs document reviews and other back office legal work for large law firms seeks licensed attorney with a minimum of 5 years experience to oversee work that is being performed in India. Position is based in India where you will be involved in helping select and train experienced Indian lawyers. Currently, there is one other experienced New York licensed lawyer on staff in India as well as US licensed lawyers at client sites in the US.
Minimum Requirements include: US Law license (any state), 2-3 years performing document reviews, 1-2 years experience supervising document reviews, experience in a variety of litigation settings and competence in more than one document management, litigation specific, software programs.
The only good news to come out of doc review outsourcing is that it will accelerate the downfall of worthless, third-rate diploma mills like Seton Hall and BLS.
Here's the facts: the economy for Biglaw is shit right now (less M&A, comm. real estate dead, sales at Fortune 500 companies flat, etc) and associates in Biglaw have already been laid off. Thus OCI/summer associate positions will be scarcer than ever this year. Many at even decent schools like Fordham will go empty handed from the legal pyramid scheme.
What the fuck happens to TTT losers from Seton Hall and BLS? Do you think Biglaw in this economy will do ANY recruiting at 4th rate toilets like SH, BLS et al? Of course not. Even the Top 5% "gunners" at these gutter schools ain't gettin NYC biglaw this year.
If you miss biglaw your choices are essentially No-Fault auto for 40 K, shylock PI ambulance chasing for 35 K, or general ID shitlaw for 40-45 K. OR doc review. But with rates for doc review plunging and outsourcing in full swing, the last "security blanket" or "fall-back plan" of the gutter school grad will vanish with it.
The defaults will come and come hard. Let's hope we see the Valvoline Dean and Joan King hauled away in handcuffs by the time the smoke clears in this mess.
Yeah, but Anita talks about what to look for when staffing for doc review projects...that's a good sign. At least Constantine will still use American attorneys.
It would be nice to see these overpriced diploma mills finally brought to task. The expansion of the LPO industry is bringing down the rates and exporting jobs. What a disaster for many attorneys that rely on reviewing documents to make a living.
The level of graduates now is clearly unsustainable...and yet we're exporting many of the good, entry level jobs.
Oh, Anita said it, so that must mean it is true. LOL
Oh for God's sales shut the fuck up about Anita!!!! Who the fuck cares about Anita???????
anita goes several step further. She wrote in her article:
OFFERS
You should make your offers quickly and try to avoid startup delays to avoid losing the best candidates to other projects.
Always pay attorneys who are performing the same task at the same rate. Managers may make slightly more, but make sure their role includes tasks other than strictly document review.
REVIEW SITES
Staffing agencies will typically offer you "free" space for a large review.
However, while the agencies don't charge you directly for the room, they typically will bill you an additional $3 to $5 per hour, per attorney.
However, this may be well worth considering if your firm is small, or has no extra space -- because it will relieve you of the burden and costs of finding and maintaining space.
sounds like anita is on our side. what the fuck is wrong with ttt? or is that why he has changed his opinion of her and no longer writes bad things about her?
I'm not so sure Anita is on our side, although she does support rewarding good work and maintaining a well-stocked kitchen. Still, she's on the side of the law firms, since she writes favorably about a "soft legal market."
Who is that LPO advertising for an American again? It seems those are the same people that ran the ad before...it's a little odd.
Anita has the same goals as Clutch, and as a provider of jobs to Americans (goddammit), she has the moral responsibility to pay $22/hour. Based on her generosity, the outsourced jobs will return to American soil.
I don't know. Anita can't pay that much cause her firm isn't that big. She can't afford to pay what Skadden or another massive firm pays.
Maybe anita is trying to recruit a posse of permanent temps?
India isn't the only thing driving down the rates. A lot of securitization, structured finance and corporate lawyers don't have a much work. Firms are staffing doc reviews internally now as a way to cut losses. Less demand => lower rates.
Makes that more associates would be relegated to doc review now that the economy is turning down. But make no mistake, the reason for the lack of a raise for document review attorneys is directly attributable to the rise the Indian attorney-filled LPO.
Indian attorneys are taking away our work, plain and simple. We paid untold thousands of dollars to attend three years of American law school, only to have the jobs we expected be sent to India.
No apologists for the sleazy outsourcing firms have a decent counter argument. We have too many American attorneys as it is, and there is no need for those offshore to take our work.
People that work for and support LPOs are directly destroying the American Middle Class. I hope you're happy with your low class jobs, because we consider you traitors.
I'm confused about why people keep mentioning Anita. Who's Anita, and what the hell does she have to do with outsourcing?
Anita has everything and nothing to do with outsourcing.
Now have the nerve to call the exporting of jobs "rightshoring".
http://www.lawdepartmentmanagementblog.com/law_department_management/2008/06/another-outpour.html
Anita has come to symbolize everything in the legal temp world - all the bad and the little good there is. so using the name anita is simply another way of talking about all those who are slavishly running this biz.
Outsourcing remains a drain on our economy, there has been no real growth in the US legal job market in over 20 years! Yet we continue to outsource attorney jobs and open more law schools.
It's got to stop!
More lamb briyani please. I am so surprised that American attorneys would give us such wonderful jobs. Thank you Corporate. America. It is such a pleasure to work for you.
What do you mean 2:52PM that you have to fight to get paid? I am debating on taking a job with them. Please let me know ASAP! Thanks!
Please send an order of simosas chicken vindaloo as well. I'm unemployed and hungry!
More wonderful LPO news, apparently they can't train 'em fast enough in India, while toilet lawyers here suffer under suffocating debt...and no job offers.
http://bangaloreindia.blogspot.com/2008/06/legal-lpo-training-for-lpo-mnc-legal-se.html
http://www.chennaiclassic.com/1_Chennai/posts/5_Education/34_Coaching_Training_Centers/73424_SEMINAR_ON_LPO_TRAINING_AND_PLACEMENTS.html?view=showad&adid=73424&cityid=1
I don't think the outsourcing to India will work. Most Indians are unethical, cheap, dirty scumbags. I know this for a fact, I've had several Indian clients and they were all willing to break the law and were cheap.
Do big corporations really want sensitive information in these shyster's hands?
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