Overflow Support

Whether your in house legal team needs project support, additional legal expertise and skill sets, or growing legal resource needs, Law Squared as a Service (or ‘LSaaS’) can provide you with access to up to all four (or just one) of our legal teams through a dedicated Relationship Manager for a fixed monthly cost.

We seamlessly integrate our team into your business to support your internal functions leveraging technology to increase efficiency and transparency of intake, workflow and reporting.

What you get as an Overflow Support client

  • • Dedicated Law Squared Relationship Manager

    • Dedicated email address for matter intake (e.g. [email protected])

    • Comprehensive onboarding including workshops with key stakeholders in your business, review of your key documents and background materials

    • Unlimited telephone advice of up to 20 minutes with Law Squared lawyers across all practice areas (commercial, corporate, litigation and employment)

    • Weekly-Fortnightly telephone catch-up and WIP updates with Relationship Manager

    • Regular reporting and reviews – every 3 months

    • Quarterly CPD sessions conducted as your choice of webinar or as face-to-face training, with no limit on practice area or scope

    • Same day response time to emails and calls

    • Standard matter turnaround time of 5 business days (unless otherwise agreed on a case-by-case basis)

    • Urgent matter turnaround time of 3 business days (unless otherwise agreed on a case-by-case basis)

  • BAU commercial support (e.g. contract drafting, review and negotiation, trademark registrations, IP licensing and assignments, Competition & Consumer law advice, Australian privacy advice).

  • High-level telephone and email advice on non-transactional corporate work.

    *All other Corporate work to fall under the Corporate Compliance Add-On or under a bespoke proposal which Law Squared can provide for work required at the relevant time.

  • High-level advice on any stage of employment life-cycle.

    *All other work to fall under the Employment Add-On or under a bespoke proposal which Law Squared can provide for work required at the relevant time.

  • Advice and guidance until proceedings are commenced, including Letters of Demand, etc.

    *If the need for out-of-scope litigation and disputes work should arise, Law Squared can assist on a fixed-fee basis and will provide a scope accordingly.

 

Why should you use Law Squared as a Service?

Our LSaaS model is a new way of working and varies from the traditional option of hiring a secondee to manage overflow work. While this option provides your business with a dedicated resource, it limits the skill set available to you which often requires you to outsource to law firms when matters fall outside of your secondee’s practice area, or where further overflow support is required, further adding to the cost of hiring a secondee.

A seconded lawyer from one of the big providers can range from anywhere between $1,500 to $2,500 per day.

If you take into consideration the ~$250,000 p/annum commitment, you can expect to have someone on the ground in your business for 2 days per week over this period, which may not actually be enough to service your needs.

Our service offering is designed to be a cost-effective alternative to the traditional option of hiring a secondee to manage overflow work, while providing access to subject matter experts in all four of our legal teams, a quick onboarding process, and smooth integration of an outsourced legal function to manage business-as-usual legal issues for all internal business functions.

Who uses our Overflow Support model?

How outsourcing their legal services helped Geoscape Australia thrive

In early 2020, a member of the Geoscape Australia in-house team tendered his resignation, which left Geoscape Australia one dedicated legal team member short. With a notice period of four weeks, Geoscape Australia were on the hunt for someone to fill that role, although it didn’t necessarily mean that it would be an in-house position - they were open to alternative legal models like a secondment or an external party joining their in-house team.

While exploring their options, Geoscape Australia approached Law Squared to see what alternatives we could offer.

Law Squared had previously been engaged by Geoscape Australia to carry out ad hoc work and had built a good relationship with the Geoscape Australia in-house team. Once the conversation began about what alternatives Law Squared could provide for Geoscape Australia, it was clear that LSaaS was the perfect fit for them.

Law Squared as a Service Team

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