Your Legal Blueprint

“The TLD ‘Your Legal Blueprint’ report has been invaluable to enable me to consider the different ways our business could resource its legal needs, written by someone who knows how businesses of our size and complexity manage their legal affairs most efficiently”

John Lane, Chief Financial Officer, The Compleat Food Group

Your Legal Blueprint will give the guidance you need to build a legal function that's a perfect fit for your growing business.

Is your business changing? Have you recently merged with another business or undergone rapid growth? Is your CFO drowning in legal work? Are your dissatisfied with your current legal service provider and spending way to much on your legal bills?

Or maybe you’ve started eyeing up international opportunities, know you need a separate legal function, but are concerned about the commitment and don’t know what skills/experience you need in your first in-house lawyer.

If your business is in a state of flux or rapid growth, it can be difficult to know how to resource your legal needs effectively, whilst keeping a handle on the costs and maintaining the culture of the business.

What are the options?

You could hire a full-time in-house lawyer? Or find an external resource that can work in your business part-time? How do these options compare? The answer will depend on the type and culture of your business and its story to date…

We can help you make the right decision

TLD’s ‘Your Legal Blueprint’ report will give you clarity on your business’s legal requirements and how best to resource them given your size, complexity, sector and appetite for risk.

One of our experienced Client Legal Directors will come to your business to carry out an assessment and deliver a bespoke report.

The report we deliver will cover:

What drives the use of lawyers in your business now and whether that approach is valid going forwards.
What your legal resource should look like – internal/ external/ part time / full time.
What level of experience / legal and commercial expertise we recommend internally and externally.
Where to find that resource. (We will draft a job specification if hiring is the suggested option.)
A legal workplan for the next six months so the legal resource can hit the ground running.
What internal training is needed to enable current staff to be less reliant on a legal resource, whichever choice you make. (We can deliver this training if required.)

And, if you need support with your legal workload before you have made your ultimate decision, our Client Legal Directors can help with that too.

Book ‘Your Legal Blueprint’

What is included?

Your Legal Blueprint is a bespoke report, created for you by a TLD Client Legal Director. It will detail:

Recommendations for how to structure your legal resource – and why.
The level of legal and commercial experience we think your business needs – both internally and externally.
Where to find that experience.
A legal workplan for the next six months so you can hit the ground running.

You also get a TLD Client Legal Director on hand to support you with the change.

What does it cost?

Your Legal Blueprint is unique to you: the size and complexity of your business and subsequent legal requirements will influence the price. We’ll be clear about the cost right from the start so you can be confident it meets your needs and fits within your budget.

Please contact us for a quote.

How do you sign up?

To book a conversation about Your Legal Blueprint, please contact: Sarah Clark:

– by emailing sarah.clark@thelegaldirector.co.uk

– by calling 020 3056 8538

We’ll be happy to explain how we’ve worked with other growing SMEs to build their legal function and explore how we could help you too.