Dallas attorney & CEO claims 90% savings on legal bills

As mentioned on Legal Blog Watch, Dallas attorney & CEO Michael Gorton's letter to Atlas Legal praises them for their blue chip service at 1/10th the blue chip rate through the miraculous cost-saving measure of outsourcing legal services:

“Your group saved me nearly 90%, AND completed the work in less than half the time. For clarification, the research you did in less than one month, saved TelaDoc over $200,000.”
---What Atlas clients are saying

No confirmation on who the "other firm" was that charged the exorbitant amount for the same work product in this client's eyes. Although Gorton claims he "favors doing business with friends," who needs friends when you can save 90% offshoring? Of course, Gorton admits

there's a political component to outsourcing. "Sometimes a law firm doesn't want word getting back to associates so they feel their jobs are in danger," he says. Others are "trying to maintain their image as an all-American company."

Trying to maintain the image of an all-American firm capable of delivering superior service (read: at a justifiably higher price) is just going to become more difficult if today's associates are unable to compete effectively with their offshore counterparts. While there are some concerns around ethical standards, privacy, confidentiality, and IP rights, they're not entirely new considerations for those of us familiar with outsourcing technology.

Read more in the Law.com In-House Counsel article. In the meantime, I'll try not to sound like a broken record.