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How The Legal Director can help your law firm  

  

Recommendation and Introduction to our business clients

In developing our links with businesses for the purposes of assisting those businesses to better manage their legal affairs as described above we are in a strong position to be able recommend and introduce individual solicitors and law firms to the businesses that we advise.

We understand the value that good external lawyers can bring to businesses and one of our objectives is to facilitate good relationships between the businesses we assist and good quality external law firms.

Better and clearer instructions for you to work to

With many years of experience of working within businesses and purchasing the services of external law firms we know how to get the best from a solicitor client relationship. Key aspects of this involve ensuring that the instructions given to the external law firm by the business are concise and state clearly the commercial objectives of the business and ensuring that the external law firm gets access to the information that it needs to be able to give appropriate legal advice.  We work hard to make sure that the legal firms we recommend and introduce to our business clients commence their relationships on this basis which sets strong foundations for the future of those relationships.

Helping you to market your skills

We are well aware of the pressures that exist on solicitors in private practise not only to market their practise but also to maintain high levels of billing. The performance of this dual role often leads to mediocre performance in both areas and it is in relation to this issue that The Legal Director can help firms of solicitors.

Get onto our recommended list of solicitors

The Legal Director has an objective to develop its network of business clients as widely as possible, the purpose being to assist as many businesses as possible to better handle their legal affairs. As stated above we aim to sit between our business clients and the external solicitors they use to help both our business clients and their solicitors. To this end we are building our own list of preferred individual solicitors and firms. At the same time as providing a service to our business clients by assisting them to find appropriate good quality solicitors we can assist the solicitors we recommend to develop their own client lists and contacts. Effectively, The Legal Director can become a business development tool for good quality firms of solicitors.

Joint Pitches

On a number of occasions we have determined that the best solution for our business clients has required the dual approach of using the services of The Legal Director to work on the inside with the client and assist with the preparation of a brief (scope the problem) and thereafter using a  firm of solicitors to carry out the required legal work.  In these cases we have carried out joint pitches with firms of solicitors and we anticipate working with our preferred solicitors firms to carry out more of these.