RITU SOLANKI, a 28-year-old lawyer with a degree from Nottingham University, spends most of her time drafting contracts and legal memos for a telecoms firm in Britain. She, however, is in Gurgaon, a high-rise satellite city on Delhi's edge, where she works for CPA Global, a legal-outsourcing company. A lawyer with similar experience at a London law firm might charge up to $400 an hour for the sort of work Ms Solanki does; her labour costs around $50 an hour. As law firms and corporate legal departments face mounting pressure to cut costs, an increasing number are choosing the Indian option.
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