Rio Tinto’s managing attorney Leah Cooper tells Alex Aldridge about the mining giant’s thinking behind the recent headline-grabbing tie-up with outsourcing provider CPA Global
Last week Rio Tinto announced a tie-up with legal outsourcing provider CPA Global, which will see it send out legal work to a 12-strong team of lawyers based in India – an arrangement which the mining giant claims will reduce its approximately £60m annual legal bill by 20%. The Indian lawyers, who have been operating in a separate ‘Rio-Tinto room’ in CPA’s Delhi offices since last month, are handling tasks including legal research, document review and contract drafting.
