Our Panel Set Up involves:

1. Designing a programme tailored to your needs as per the review exercise,
2. Identifying tender categories and short listed law firms, including incumbents if appropriate,
3. Preparing Invitation to Tender and all ancillary documentation, scoring responses and holding interviews,
4. Negotiating benchmarked fees and expenses and settling Service Level Agreements/Client Care Letters,
5. Securing other value added services (including secondees, training and precedent libraries), and
6. Delivering panel set up for a pre-agreed fixed fee to an agreed timetable.

Bespoke Panel Management Service

Ongoing management is important to:

• Secure delivery of the promised Panel benefits,
• Save valuable time for the in-house team, and
• Offer additional focus which might otherwise be lost.

The service includes:

1. Mini-tendering of new work within the Panel,
2. Scoping and project managing work,
3. Capturing all value added services offered as part of the tendering process,
4. Co-ordinating the maintenance of a key advice document library, precedents etc,
5. Monthly cost up-date reporting to GC, and reviewing Panel invoices for conformity to plan,
6. Facilitating the annual review of panel members’ performance by General Counsel, and target setting for the following year.

The benefits are clear:

• Savings secured,
• Valued added benefits delivered,
• Tasks appropriately resourced,
• Internal processes enhanced,
• Ongoing service delivery improved,
• Fee disputes reduced, and
• Flexibility built in to suit your needs.