All General Counsel are under pressure to:

• Reduce external legal costs,
• Effectively project manage their external lawyers,
• Find new and innovative ways of resourcing their legal needs,
• Maximise the amount of work that in-house teams are able to undertake,
• Refine in-house skills and processes, and
• Obtain greater buy in by external Counsel.

They need their external advisors to be:

• Technically excellent,
• Sector specialists and aware of the market standard on deals,
• Competitively priced,
• Efficient and cost conscious in the way they resource and deliver work,
• An extension of the in-house team,
• understanding the business dynamics that impact upon decision making,
• Able to provide cost certainty and transparency in their billing, and
• Attuned to provide targeted value added services.

We bring:

• Extensive legal market day to day knowhow, giving broad and deep lawyer and law firm insight and the ability to benchmark costs and structured fees,
• Procurement skills with legal knowhow to secure sensible pricing,
• A team comprising ex lawyers with in-depth case and transaction experience enhancing our ability to manage projects efficiently and to cost,
• Knowledge management skills and training to promote expanded in-house roles and improved Client law firm service and interaction, and
• Very significant demonstrable net cost savings, and A sub contracted self financing time saving service.

Our objective is to:

• Support your in-house team, and
• Bring complementary skills and additional resources to help optimise external lawyer service delivery.