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When and why add freelance lawyers to a legal management?

May 16, 2019
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In a competitive and digitized era, which gives priority to retention of talent and reduced operational costs, incorporating freelance lawyers into companies and legal studies allows access to qualified staff by optimizing resources. Flexible labour forces are the future of new organizational structures.

Thus, the incorporating such resources is an opportunity for:

  • To have talents with a high degree of knowledge and experience.
  • Increase delivery efficiency and meet internal customer expectations.
  • Retain talent by adapting to the expectations of lawyers who call for a greater balance between work and personal life.
  • Optimize resources for the company, without reducing the quality at work.
  • According to Forbes, 57% of companies that use independent talent save up to 20% in labour costs.
  • Time savings in the process of contracting.

In fact, according to Forbes, 36% of companies that use independent talent do so for this reason.

Now, When do you add freelance lawyers to your business? The following are some situations that merit the incorporation of flexible labour force for efficiency reasons:

  1. Externalization of operational tasks that consume a lot of time, thus, the team of internal lawyers can focus on what actually brings value.
  2. When it is necessary to cover sporadic legal requirements.
    According to Forbes, up to 42% of companies use independent workers to face the rise in demand at certain specific times of the year. This eliminates the cost of hiring and then liquidating employees as required.
  3. Work peaks. When the workload exceeds the internal legal team.
  4. Replacements either due to illness, pre and post-natal, studies abroad, etc.
    Having a trained lawyer to join the company's team and culture will be a contribution both for its experience and for the efficiency it implies.
  5. Development of on-off site projects, where by nature lawyers are required per project.

In Alster LegaI count on Flexible Legal Talent®, a product designed to meet these needs through certain agreements that guarantee the opportunity, quality and confidentiality, adapting to budgetary constraints.

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