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GLS External Counsel Function Efficiency Report™ (Delivered)
A full report on the environment in which your lawyers work
The Problem
You need to get much better value from your external counsel.
Related challenges include:
- external counsel are a Top 2 expense line for your legal team (in many - Top 1)
- there are significant questions over the “value” you receive from external counsel
- you are under pressure not to use external counsel as frequently
- to improve you must undertake a “current status” assessment
- legal department “how to guides” are not commonly available
- objectively assessing your own performance is not easy
- you are not sure of what performance audit criteria to use
- you are not clear how your external counsel function benchmarks against peer legal departments
- finding time to conduct an audit comes on top of existing workloads
- you know good diagnostic tools provide actionable insights
- your team wants to do more strategic work but just cannot find the time
Wouldn’t it be great if you could access a comprehensive diagnostic tool that allows you to generate actionable insights for your team?
The GLS Solution
External Counsel Performance Efficiency Report™ (Delivered) is a fully managed bespoke reporting solution that objectively examines the performance of your relationships with external service providers and provides practical recommendations on how to achieve turn those relationships into far more cost effective and value generating construct.
Transforming the your legal teams working environment requires understanding your current position. This report provides a data-based report on how effective your legal teams environment is engaging with external counsel (when, why, and on what terms).
This is critical as today, in-house legal teams are expected to operate as enterprise-grade functions - enabling growth, managing risk dynamically, integrating with technology, and demonstrating value to the business in clear, measurable terms. This must be achieved from finite resources, which are, for many legal teams, disproportionally consumed through the use of external service providers.
Yet the way legal talent is planned, developed, assessed, and supported has remained largely unchanged and no longer meets the needs of modern in-house legal teams. Our report will give you the insights you need to move towards a performance engineered team capable of operating at scale.
With a particular focus on common potential inefficiency scenarios, in light of benchmark data, we are able to identify practical productivity optimisation strategies – with an emphasis on what is practical and what is known to work.
Our comprehensive diagnostic modules are deployed to your internal stakeholders via desktop surveys that generate thousands of data points – along with selective 1-hour long key stakeholder interviews.
The performance criteria against which our report is prepared is that of a world class “performance optimised” legal support function which you can see visually depicted on the GLS Transformation Tube Map - explore the GLS External Counsel Station. As result the report provides provide you with:
- a powerful reference model of what your fully optimised external service provider function would look like
- a detailed view of the critical resources that enable optimal legal team performance;
- an assessment of the presence and/or current performance of your resources;
- an assessment of the productivity consequences of your current legal dept. landscape - we unpack the cost of inefficiency to your business;
- best practice markers for key legal department features and basic recommendations on performance initiatives; and
- clearly identified and logical intervention/optimisation scenarios to drive function productivity.
This solution provides you the authority of an expert third party voice on the current performance levels and capabilities of your legal team in an objective and transparent manner. This makes it easier for you internally to justify the resources your team needs.
Critically, there are no ‘negative’ findings – just blueprint recommendations for your team to optimal output and realisable ROI from your legal team members. Our optimisation recommendations are intentionally pragmatic and backed by performance data that speak to productivity strategies that actually work.
This solution helps prepare you to pro-actively face the future on your own terms and increase the strategic relevance of your team. If you are serious about legal team transformation, this is an essential first step initiative.
Problem solved.
Solution Deliverables
| Fully Delivered Legal Team Environment Report: | We produce a detailed performance report according to our proprietary diagnostic and reporting methodologies. |
| Advanced Diagnostic Tools: | We use a detailed suite of online / e-format audit tools designed to help us detailed performance data from your team. You can select the diagnostic level that you wish to apply – see SLA below. We host the collection of the online questionnaire feedback. |
| Primary Data Sources: | Our diagnostic tools can be sent to any number of internal legal team members. Similarly, we can conduct variable numbers of one to one interviews with key internal stakeholders – typically legal team and internal client representatives. In both cases the solution costs dynamically adjust depending on your preferences. See the SLA below for our recommended parameters. |
| One To One Interviews: | Strategic and sympathetic ‘one to one’ interviews with key legal function stakeholders to ensure that their voice, concerns and requirements are factored into the overall report and associated recommendations. |
| GLS Legal Transformation Tube Map Modelling: | Our diagnostic modules draw from GLS’ market leading legal department performance analysis module – the GLS Legal Transformation Tube Map – which you can find here. |
| GLS Delivery Methodologies: | GLS deploys its own project methodologies that ensure minimal disruption to the workplace whilst obtaining maximum qualitative and quantitative data yields. It is a condition of this solution that GLS methodologies are strictly adhered to. |
| Written Report: | Our written report follows the same approach as any scientific findings report. We set out the methodology, participants, raw findings, finding interpretations and then offer recommendations on improvement pathways. |
| Report Presentation: | We don’t just present your report – we provide a 2 hour workshop to present of our report findings and to allow you to engage in detailed Q&A. |
Solution SLA Options and US$ Pricing
| Column one | Column two | Column three | Column four | Column five |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DELIVERABLES | Standard | |||
| Diagnostic Questions | 200 | |||
| Online Survey Recipients | 5 | |||
| 1 to 1 Interviews (1hr sessions) | 2 | |||
| GLS Written Report | ✓ | |||
| Findings Presentation | ✓ | |||
| Price (excl. VAT) | $14,999 |
Pricing Comparison
| Big Law Review | US Rate | GLS Cost | Minutes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Own Team (Distraction Hours) | $260 | $14,999 | 57h 41m |
| Partner | $850 | $14,999 | 17h 38m |
| Senior Associate | $640 | $14,999 | 23h 24m |
| Blended Rate | $520 | $14,999 | 28h 48m |
| Associate | $480 | $14,999 | 31h 12m |
| Junior Associate | $420 | $14,999 | 35h 42m |
GLS RPLV Legal Operations Score
This solution’s GLS RPLV impact score:
| Resource Status: | Specialist | Repeater | Formative |
| Ease of Implementation: | Complex | Average | Easy |
| Value Demonstration/Visibility: | Low | Medium | High |
| Productivity Leverage Profile: | Low | Medium | High |
| IHL Line Optimisation: | Single | Multiple | All Lines |
IHL Critical Function Optimisation Targets
This solution enhances performance across the following critical in-house functions:
In-House Legal: Critical Functions / Processes
General Counsel
Contracting
Legal Tech
Compliance
Managed Service
Human Capital
Legal Operations
Service Provider
Performance
Knowledge
IP
Internal Client
Data Analytics
Co. Sec.
Disputes
GLS has identified 15 critical in-house processes/functions that are present in every world-class legal department. To learn what these functions are, their composition and how they interrelate to deliver efficient legal team performance outcomes - visit here.
