Are you currently getting the legal help you want?
There are a multitude of legal matters to address when running a business. From employment matters to intellectual property, GDPR to outsourcing, supply chain agreements to compliance, the legal implications of managing a company are wide-ranging and varied and they must be dealt with. And if it is your role within a business to ensure these needs are met, you will appreciate that it can feel like a daunting task.
The very diversity of requirements means you have probably found yourself relying on more than one law firm, explaining your business requirements again and again to various lawyers and perhaps feeling frustrated that they don’t fully understand your priorities or see things from the commercial perspective that you need. You may want to deal with the legal issues in-house but don’t have the workload to justify employing a full-time lawyer.
If this is all too familiar to you, don’t despair! There is another way.
At The Legal Director we are a fully regulated law firm that provides businesses with highly experienced lawyers — but on a part-time or flexible basis according to the client’s need. Embedded as part of your business, even badged as such if that helps your company in negotiations, our lawyers deliver legal advice from your business perspective, not just meeting existing legal needs but anticipating future ones. Available for one-off projects, or retained for a day a week, or a few days a month, our lawyers fit in with your needs and contribute to your business at the highest level.
And, perhaps best of all, the ‘Client Legal Director’ which we supply to your business, is a high-calibre, extremely experienced business lawyer – a company lawyer capable of dealing with around 99% of all the legal matters that your business will encounter.
Moreover, should there ever be the rare occasion where the lawyer we supply to you might need the input of another business lawyer on a specialist point, guess what? They’ll have immediate access to their colleagues in The Legal Director’s team of 40-plus business legal specialists.
So what does this ‘99% of all your legal needs’ coverage mean exactly?
To make our comprehensive set of services easy to understand (and also to provide our clients with a systematic approach to addressing legal issues), we developed our 9-point legal framework. This provides a very useful summary of the many business areas one of our Client Legal Directors is able to cover. In brief these are:
1. Business growth
2. Intellectual property
3. Business exit planning
4. Your people
5. Your business relationships
6. Your property
7. Business processes
8. Governance, compliance and risk
9. Ongoing legal needs
The coverage is hugely comprehensive. And should legal issues arise outside of these areas you can be almost certain that our lawyers will know exactly how to deal with them and advise you – and always from the perspective of your business, not ours.
The perfect time to change
The Covid-19 pandemic impacted businesses in multiple areas and forced them to review the way they operate. Though enormously challenging, it has served as a reminder to challenge the status quo. Now, more than ever, businesses need to work smart and eliminate costly inefficiencies. Just because you may have traditionally used external law firms, doesn’t mean you should continue to do so.
You may feel like you don’t have time to address this issue and to implement a change to your legal provision. Yet, ironically, that’s the whole point of the way we work. The Legal Director model saves CEOs, MDs, Directors, and personnel at various levels, significant time. Feedback from our clients repeatedly tells us that our lawyers have freed up time for them to do their own jobs, safe in the knowledge that our lawyers are taking care of the legal work. Read our case studies if you want to hear more.
We understand that for many it’s a different way of doing things. But challenging times call for new ways of thinking. Time now, perhaps, to explore a better way – the TLD way – and improve how your business deals with its legal matters.
As ever, we’re on hand and ready to help. Just pick up the phone and call us on 020 3056 8538 or send us an email.
