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How to build a successful remote legal team

What do legal teams look like? In the past, it would be an easy scene to paint: people in grey suits, sitting at nice desks, in high-rise offices working hard. These days, it’s not as straightforward.

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4 min read

How to boost your legal team with interim lawyers

Over the past decade, there has been strong and sustained growth in the use of interim lawyers. As this market has matured, we’ve uncovered a much wider set of use-cases for contracting interim lawyers - over and above the more common scenarios like parental leave covers.

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5 min read

Spending your surplus budget – on something you can use all year round...

If you’ve got extra budget you need to use up before the end of the year, it might be tempting to spend it on something short-lived and flashy.

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Why (and how) in-house legal teams should focus on output

To better deliver value to their organisation, forward-thinking legal teams have shifted their focus to measuring outputs over inputs. This refocusing enables legal teams to boost their efficiency, as time spent on matters is no longer an indicator of value or a badge of pride. Knowing how to measure your team’s output can be challenging and sometimes the smart move is to bring in legal delivery experts to lead the way.

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Review 2021, Forecast 2022

Read our round-up of key insights from this year, and where we think 2022 will take us.

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3 min read

What are the benefits of a virtual legal team?

For a long time, there has been an awkward gap in the legal services market. Imagine you’re a growing business and your legal demands are outstripping your lean in-house team, but you don’t have the budget for increased headcount, nor to send the work to a large law firm. What other options are out there?

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7 min read

How to hit the ground running

For over a decade LOD has been partnering with clients to provide lawyers on secondment into in-house legal teams around the world. One of the consistent pieces of feedback we receive is the ability of our secondees to seamlessly integrate into our clients’ teams and start adding value. Over this time, we’ve gathered a wealth of information about how secondees can ‘hit the ground running.’ We’ve seen what works and where challenges tend to form and need to be overcome.

Hit the ground running