The offshoring trend continues to penetrate the legal function, as a recent announcement by Royal Dutch Shell concerning a new offshore legal center illustrates:
“In the latest twist to the offshoring saga…Royal Dutch Shell is preparing to open its own offshore legal centre to service the oil giant’s global operations. A projects team, reporting to the company’s legal director Donny Ching…is currently scouting possible locations and considering headcount numbers….A mixture of non-qualified and qualified lawyers will be doing more high-end work as well as the traditional back office work which is more typically suited to offshore centres.”