But it will require a trial to establish them, complete with witnesses, depositions and more filings.
Such lawyers are capable of doing more complex work than the document review and proofreading that currently forms the bulk of legal outsourcing.That said, many legal jobs, from court appearances to the handling of witness depositions, will never be outsourced.
In two days of depositions, Mr Mancuso used PowerPoint presentations to recount his crimes chronologically from 1992 to 2003.
According to depositions by Mr May and the mayor (which lawyers for Church & Tower's parent company anyway dispute), that statement was made not by Mr Mas Jr, with whom the mayor has testified that the meeting was "cordial", but by his brother, Juan Carlos Mas, at another meeting.
About 11,000 depositions have been taken, on subjects ranging from the pogroms carried out in northern Nigeria against the ethnic Ibo before the civil war of 1967-70, thethe assassinations and torture of opposition leaders in the mid-1990s.
The case has not only distracted him with depositions, but has concentrated the country's thoughts on his genitalia rather than his policies.
Defendants complain that, in a handful of jurisdictions, judges allow the introduction of poor scientific evidence and block depositions by plaintiffs, with devastating consequences.
Although it concluded that nothing truly egregious was done, the association still fired three officers, including the head of its enforcement staff, and threw out a fifth of its work on the Miami case, which relied on Ms Perez's depositions.
But whatever these small mercies, who knows where the depositions of the president's playmate, Monica Lewinsky, his golfing buddy, Vernon Jordan, and his spin-master, Sidney Blumenthal, may eventually lead?As Mr Clinton's private lawyer, David Kendall, warned the Senate on Tuesday, if witnesses are deposed and extra information is admitted into the trial, then "the genie is out of the bottle".
The online retailer, determined to see four years' worth of discovery and depositions receive an airing in court, is appealing.
This includes written questions to the other side, depositions of witnesses, and demands for documents the other might have.
