An article in the Seattle Pi says: 'While law firm associates often have to do document review, firms have begun outsourcing more of this drudgery to unemployed lawyers. These contract lawyers do nothing but doc review — often considered the least-pleasant task for young lawyers.'  One lawyer who spoke with the website said: 'This is where lawyers' careers go to die. You have a lot of older lawyers, you have a lot of foreign lawyers, and then you have lawyers who have never done any legal work at all. They have only done document review. It's kind of depressing. It's not stable work. You're on unemployment when you're between projects.' Source: Seattle Pi