You may be right, i'm not in the General Counsel's office (the guy that has to defend and budget spending on internal/external counsel).

From experience in these things though, it's pretty easy math. AAG is a 14B market cap company with 44B in revenue...but ~$1.4 B in net. I've worked for ~2.5 Billion market cap companies that the General Counsel had a budget of over $20MM a year.

Facing a contract increase that could be easily $5MM to $10MM per year, it's pretty easy to math to drop $1.5 MM on outside counsel.

If you are right though, it's even more depressing for the pilots of Envoy. That means you just got smoked by a couple of C student schmucks working 9-5 for the company.