Short Term Cover

Resourcing is a universal challenge for all industries. Whether you have a short term gap and looking to fill a full time resource, have a team member going on short term or extended leave, or have to reshuffle internal resources due to a business project, Law Squared as a Service (or ‘LSaaS’) can step right into your legal team at a cost of the traditional outsourced models.

Leveraging our Relationship Manager model, with access to up to all four of our legal teams, we seamlessly integrate our team into your business to support your internal functions, utilising technology to increase efficiency and transparency of intake, workflow and reporting. LSaaS offers the best of both worlds providing an external legal solution to an in house legal problem.

What you get as an Short Term Cover 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 Law Squared as a Service 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 provide short-term cover, 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 Short Term Cover model?

Filling a gap while business continued as usual with Law Squared as a Service

Despite being one of the world’s largest engineering and electronics companies, Bosch’s Australian legal team is small in size. Led by General Counsel, Anne Lock, the team looks after all legal services needs, with a view to ensure that they are mitigating the risk to the business and ensuring that they remain compliant in everything they do.

When leading a small team, the responsibility of managing internal workloads and seeking additional support falls to the General Counsel. Anne was in need of additional support to assist while a team member was on parental leave, and then again when the business was recruiting for a permanent lawyer for their growing legal team.

Law Squared as a Service Team

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