Clifford Chance has embarked on a plan to ramp up its offshore paralegal capacity. This will see its Indian staff handle much of the work that is currently undertaken by London trainees and paralegals – including form 395 submissions to register company charges, due-diligence document review for litigation, preparing shell company conversions, cloning documents and certain low-level drafting (See, The Lawyer.com ). This is a bad sign and I hope that U.S. law firms do not follow Clifford Chance's strategy for reducing cost because that would mean a reduction in paralegal jobs. New York Paralegal Blog will keep you posted on the paralegal job market so keep reading. There is a new story posted five days a week.