Gates, Scott ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
:
: Now that we have the technology to evaluate medical tests overseas,
: the only highly skilled professionals we HAVEN'T figured out how to
: 'virtually import' using the internet are lawyers, another form of
: blood sucking low life.
:

There are lawyers in the U.S on H-1B visas:

     http://www.zazona.com/ShameH1B/
     H-1B Hall of Shame

Just use the LCA database search engine, and look for lawyers at
Mc Donald's headquarters:

     http://www.zazona.com/LCA-Data/
     Labor Condition Application (LCA) Database Search Engine

Some legal back-office jobs are being offshored:

   http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=16600553
   InformationWeek > Offshore Outsourcing >
   Legal Research And Back-Office Work To Go Offshore Next  > December 9, 2003

  "India-based vendors are setting up business-process outsourcing arms
   to service the legal industry.

   By Paul McDougall

   Legal research and other back-office work carried out at law firms may
   be among the next set of white-collar jobs to move offshore in big
   numbers. According to a recent study by researchers at the University
   of California at Berkeley, legal assistants and paralegals working in
   India on behalf of U.S. law firms earn, on average, between $6 and $8
   per hour. That's about one-third of what their counterparts in the
   United States are paid..."

--Jerry Leslie
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