Services

Overstretched In-House Legal Teams need support from time to time

 

Large businesses usually employ in-house lawyers to fulfil the type of role that The Legal Director provides to its SME clients. However, the balance between the amount of internal legal resource employed and the amount of work sent out to external legal firms is a difficult balance to achieve and maintain.

Large businesses generate large amounts of legal work and invariably in-house legal teams are overstretched and restricted by cost and fixed overhead restraints. This leads to similar problems to the ones faced by SME’s.

The results can include poor management of legal issues and a lack of control over individual business units which bypass the in-house legal team and instruct external solicitors firms direct. This usually leads to higher legal costs and inappropriate and inadequate control of external legal firm relationships resulting in wasted cost and poor relationships with those external law firms.

  

The Legal Director can ease some of your In-House lawyers problems

 

We can assist large businesses and their in-house legal teams by offering the following services:

  1. Senior level back up to assist with individual legal projects and large transactions
  2. Interim senior management support to assist with the management of junior in-house lawyers freeing up the in-house legal head of department to concentrate on strategy
  3. Interim control and direction of the in-house legal function in the temporary absence of the in-house legal head of department or pending the appointment of a new in-house legal head of department and
  4. Assistance with the selection, management and control of external legal firms.