Pangea 3 is a legal outsourcing firm in Noida, India specializing in outsourcing young Indian lawyers eager to get assigned to lawyers in the United States. With most of the world’s legal outsourcing firms setting up shop in India and only a significantly smaller percentage establishing firms in other countries such as the Philippines, companies like Pangea 3 are actively recruiting Western lawyers who are willing to leave Wall Street for New Delhi.

They are relocating them in order to manage the growing population of English speaking lawyers who work for a fraction of what a law firm in the West would charge. Greg McPolin, managing director of Pangea 3’s litigation services group is one of these Western Lawyers who divides his time between India and New York. He says his company is “getting more resumés from United States lawyers than we know what to do with.”

Legal outsourcing in India has grown from a few tiny firms who were more of an experiment than a serious investment to becoming a mainstream addition and is currently how law is practiced around the world. Large multi-national corporations, Wall Street banks, Energy giants, Insurance companies and most other leading industries are using outsourced lawyers from India to do everything from research and constructing legal briefs to due diligence and contract law.

However, for the more sophisticated public relations aspect of the law business Indian firms are continuing to bring in more seasoned lawyers form Great Britain and the United States.

Christopher Wheeler, a former assistant attorney general for New York State, knows first hand that Western Lawyers are finding it very attractive to be a valuable commodity in India’s rapidly expanding legal outsourcing business sector. Mr. Wheeler took that leap and is now managing a team of 110 Indian lawyers who primarily work for law firms in the United States for pennies on the dollar.

By the end of 2009 there were more than 140 legal outsourcing companies in India. This was a remarkable jump from 2005 when there were no more than 40 in the entire country.

Forecasted revenue for India’s legal outsourcing firms are estimated at $440 million in 2010 and is rumored to surpass the billion dollar mark by 2014.