Legal Department Consulting

Legal departments may struggle to scale together with the overall growth of the business and adapt to changing business models. To help you identify improvement opportunities for your legal function and define your legal strategy, we offer clear insights into your legal function’s performance. We do this by combining our consulting methodologies and business analytics with our in-depth knowledge of how to deliver legal services. Working side by side with you and drawing on our market insights, we provide objective, evidence-based analyses and solutions that work. 

Legal Maturity Assessment

Work smarter, not harder. With the Legal Maturity Assessment (LMA), you get a quick scan of the current state of your legal department and how to get to the desired future-proof state. 

Our LMA approach is an easy-to-understand methodology that will be used to help your organisation to define the strategic direction of your legal function and communicate this to the relevant stakeholders. It will clearly highlight how to change or upgrade your legal function to minimise risk whilst maximising efficiency and opportunities. LMA will consider your organisation as a whole and not just the legal function or those with specific legal responsibility, in isolation. 

How does it work?

We reference five maturity levels to show the extent to which an organisation exercises legal control and use benchmarks to define how your organization compares to your peers or competition. The gap between your current level and ambition level based on the benchmark, gives a direct insight into the improvements required. The output is specifically designed to highlight strengths and weaknesses; to identify and support the requirement for change or improvements within the legal function; and minimise risk whilst maximising efficiency and opportunities. 

Legal Function Optimisation

It is important that an organisation understands the effectiveness of its legal operating model and legal control framework. This will enable the organisation to develop a plan to ensure it can meet its strategic objectives and address the requirements of its stakeholders. Our approach enables us to work with you to assess the current state of your legal operating model and legal control framework and identify areas for improvement. Working side by side with you and drawing on our market insights, we provide objective, evidence-based analysis and solutions that work. 

We understand that whilst having a framework is important, there isn’t a ‘one size fits all’ and each client will have their unique dynamics. In some cases a wholesale review will be appropriate, whilst other circumstances may call for a much more targeted and specific analysis. 

An overview of the projects we have delivered for clients:

  • Designed a Legal Target Operating Model 
  • Redesigned team roles and developed strategic (external) sourcing frameworks to enhance productivity and efficiency.  
  • Created systematic approaches for handling legal service requests and stakeholder expectations 
  •  Guided legal departments with navigating the LegalTech landscape and making the right investment Set up future-proof strategies for the operations within a legal department 
  • Support with the implementation of LegalTech in the form of road maps, training sessions and workshops  

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