It perpetuated the myth
3 June, 2007 | | Category: Europe
Yahoo Finance press release reports CTG, an international IT solutions company was named the “Best Outsourcing Solution” winner at TechX New York 2004.
“During the 10 years that CTG has been Lone Star’s IT provider, the company has transformed itself,” said Curt Montgomery, CTG Director of Outsourcing Solutions. “As Lone Star’s partner, CTG helped it through its business transformation by supporting its information technology infrastructure, applications, and staff; aligning these components with Lone Star’s business needs; and ensuring that Lone Star achieved its goals. We worked very closely with the business to provide the right support and the right resources to leverage IT as a business enabler.”
America’s legal profession is based on ideals: on standards of education and admission to the practice, ethics regulation, a disregard for commercialism and on working on behalf of the public good. The legal system is rooted in the belief that all should have access to justice. But Yale Law Professor and legal historian, [sic] says it’s not so. The profession is hardly professional anymore. He says lawyers today are out for their own economic self-interest…
Instead of providing what could have been a rich discussion about the present and future of the legal profession, with points and counterpoints from a spectrum of voices, On Point succeeded in reinforcing for its listeners virtually every negative stereotype that exists about American lawyers today. It perpetuated the myth that all lawyers work for large firms on behalf of shady corporate interests and are members of an Ivy-educated elite motivated solely by self-interest and greed.
The show’s greatest defect was its failure to accurately and fully depict today’s legal profession in all its diversity. This one-sided portrayal of a legal profession in moral decline ignored the numerous efforts that have contributed to the improvement of law and the institutions that serve it. And it disregarded the movements within the profession that seek to deliver justice better and provide effective mechanisms for the resolution of disputes.
There are plenty of attorneys today who are trailblazers, breaking new ground through movements like collaborative law and restorative justice. These attorneys are bold architects of new ways of serving the public and justice better.
And how can a show that purported to examine the legal profession and access to justice fail to discuss one of the most important revolutions in the courts and in the practice of law: the widespread availability and institutionalization of alternative dispute resolution?
Sunday, November 21, 2004
Outsourcing Accelerating
International Herald Tribune reports a new report commissioned by a bipartisan congressional commission said 406,000 U.S. jobs would migrate overseas this year, double the conventional wisdom. This trend is expected to continue for several years.
Job movement overseas “is absolutely accelerating, and it’s changing in its nature,” said Kate Bronfenbrenner, a professor in Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, who prepared the report for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. “Whereas in 2001 it was almost all in manufacturing, now we see an increase in information technology, communications, financial services, and white-collar work, from research and design to back office.” The report will be presented at public hearings in Seattle in January.