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Smaller and Medium sized businesses often put off dealing with their legal issues

 

SME's tend to resist allocating resource to legal problems and often muddle along until a legal issue starts to become serious – one of the reasons for this is that employing an in-house lawyer or instructing a firm of solicitors can be expensive.

This approach can lead to the haphazard management of your businesses legal affairs and a fragmented understanding of the legal issues and risk facing your business.

It can also often result in your business panicking and appointing the wrong firm of solicitors for a particular legal job. As a result, unnecessary additional legal cost is often incurred as a consequence of using the firm appointed to sort out the mess before it gets to the stage where the provision of legal advice is appropriate.

This usually leads to dissatisfaction and reinforces the businesses view that legal services are expensive. Unsatisfactory and uneasy communications with the firm of solicitors then results.

This model for resourcing legal affairs is costly and wastes time.

  

The Legal Director solution for SME's

 

The Legal Director can help with this in the following ways –

  1. We sit comfortably between the directors of your business and your external firm of solicitors. We're an alternative to sole reliance on external law firms and fulfil a need that would otherwise have to be met by your directors or by employing an in-house lawyer.
  2. Our role is based on strong relationship skills. This enables us to get close to your business and provide you with 'a lawyer on the inside.' This is vital when dealing with external firms of solicitors.
  3. We act as a translator of legal issues for your business bridging the gap between you and your external firm of solicitors. We have many years experience of working as in-house lawyers and in private practice and have extensive knowledge of and contacts within the legal profession which we can use to your advantage.
  4. Having carefully matched your business with an appropriate firm of solicitors we will continue to assist and nurture that relationship on an ongoing basis.

If your business is an SME The Legal Director can become part of your board or senior management team tasked with identifying your legal issues and managing them and helping you to resolve them which in turn will minimise your risk and keep your mind at rest...