Globalization's impact on legal services: the American Bar Association weighs in

Technological developments are continuing to transform the world's economy, with few, if any, industries in the US, or elsewhere, unaffected. Globalization even has led to changes in the ways in which lawyers provide legal services, with a growing number of US lawyers and law firms now outsourc...

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Published in:Intellectual property & technology law journal 2012-08, Vol.24 (8), p.14
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Ethics
Foreign operations
Global economy
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Influence
Jurisdiction
Law firms
Legal ethics
Legal research
Multidisciplinary practices
Outsourcing
Technological change
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