[LAW-LIB:54990] Re: West's outsourcing of headnote/digest writing

From: Jim Milles (jgmilles@buffalo.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2008 - 11:15:30 PDT

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    A/P department?

    Jim

    On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Janet Fischer <jfischer@ggu.edu> wrote:

    > I don't know about the headnotes, but I do know that they've outsourced
    > their A/P dept. to India, and it's been a disaster. At least from where I
    > sit.
    >
    > Janet
    >
    > Janet Fischer
    > Collection Development/Government Documents Librarian
    > Golden Gate University Law Library
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    >
    > >>> "Brian Baker" <bbaker@sjcl.edu> 3/11/2008 4:43 PM >>>
    > 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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