What follows is the beginning of an article by Jim Middlemiss that appeared in the April 25, 2008 issue of the National Post. If the trend continues a significant amount of North American legal work will be done in India.

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"PUNE, India -- Rohan Dalal manages 459 lawyers, which makes his firm, Mindcrest (India) Pvt. Ltd., one of the biggest employers of legal talent in India. In fact, if Mindcrest was a law firm, it would be the country's biggest, ranking with some of the largest law firms in Canada.

But Mindcrest, located in Pune, a city of five million people that is a 30­minute flight from Mumbai, isn't a law firm and Mr. Dalal isn't even a lawyer. He's an engineer, and the lawyers he manages provide outsourced legal services to European and North American companies a world away."