Legal Research

From Dayton to Bharat

By Simon Chester

Today’s Dayton Business Journal describes a shake-up involving our friends at Lexis, as Reed Elsevier continues its process of moving jobs from Ohio to India.

The plans are to move a quarter of the jobs over the next few years. It’s been a forty year linkage between Dayton and legal research since the Ohio Bar started the work on automating legal information.

In a presentation given in Toronto late last year, former Reed Elsevier plc officer Sanjay Viswanathan gave a presentation that showed the LexisNexis parent company restructuring through 2010. The presentation shows the company will shift 900 jobs to China and India by the end of 2010.

Rumours are abounding that Lexis will vacate one of their larger buildings to another tenant.

Outsourcing meets legal research in unanticipated ways.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on May 28, 2008 (boomark / email).