[LAW-LIB:54977] West's outsourcing of headnote/digest writing

From: Brian Baker (bbaker@sjcl.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 11 2008 - 16:43:10 PDT

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    In 2004 there was a lot of discussion on law-lib about Thomson West
    outsourcing a portion of their headnote/digest writing to another
    country - India, I believe.

    Does anyone know what happened with that experiment. Did it take hold,
    or get dropped, and when?

    I am curious about whether the practice was successful and fully
    implemented.

    Thank you,

    Brian

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