Hollywood Outsourcing Higher-End Legal Work to India

• Posted by Geoff Gussis on November 13th, 2007


• Filed in Law Department Management, News

Now it’s the law firms’ turn to strike……

Even with the multi-millions that a successful movie can make, Hollywood producers are watching their legal costs. So, instead of having high-priced U.S. law firms handle all of their entertainment matters, some reportedly are starting to send some relatively high-end legal work to attorneys in India.While outsourcing “back office” work such as document reviews is fairly commonplace today, Indian lawyers working on planned Hollywood productions are conducting legal research, writing legal opinions, drafting motions and copyright clauses, preparing documents for insurance coverage, and processing visas for Hollywood actors, producers and directors, reports the Times of India.

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