PANGEA3 LLC

Pangea3 has learned that the lawsuit filed earlier this year in the D.C. District Court challenging the legality of offshore legal outsourcing has been withdrawn by the Plaintiff firm, Bethesda, Maryland-based Newman, McIntosh & Hennessey.

The withdrawal comes only days after the American Bar Association (ABA) issued a formal ethics opinion that not only approves but endorses the use of legal outsourcing providers as a method to extend in-house capacity and to reduce costs. Please see our blog posting of August 27th entitled ABA Blesses Use of Legal Outsourcing; August ABA Ethics Opinion Confirms that Offshoring Legal Work is Ethical.

At this time, we can only assume that the Plaintiff firm realized the futility of prosecuting their suit in the shadow of the ABA’s opinion, and the opinions of the New York City Bar Association, Florida State Bar Association, San Diego County Bar Association and the Los Angeles County Bar Association, each of which affirmed that the use of offshore legal services providers like Pangea3 does not violate any ethical rules or regulations.

Please watch this space for more details on this development as they become available.