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"In a move that is sending shudders through the global BigLaw community, Rio Tinto has hired a team of Indian attorneys in an effort to cut by 20 percent its annual legal budget of about $100 million."



And it's not just contract attorney work anymore.



"Although outsourcing legal work to India is far from a novel concept, Rio Tinto is bypassing law firms and outsourcing legal work directly. Plus, not just legal processing but substantive legal work is being handled by the Indian attorneys it retained through CPA. Thus, the Rio Tinto move represents 'a fundamentally new way of working,' the Times article explains."



http://www.abajournal.com/news/biglaw_firms_shudder_as_rio_tinto_retains_legal_team_in_india/