Legal Management Consulting

Legal Management Consulting

W&S’s Legal Management Consulting services were developed by lawyers in collaboration with experts from across areas such as management consultancy, risk advisory, and tax management consulting. LMC is a collection of models, frameworks, and systems, designed to help in-house lawyers run their departments more efficiently, and meet their business needs.

Our services include:
Legal Operating Model Various events in an organization trigger the need for a change in Legal operating Model it maybe due to a new Merger, New business strategy or a challenge of cost reduction. W&S Legal may help organizations seeking to change their legal operating models whether on a larger scale or a targeted assessment of a particular area

• Reduce legal spend
• Enable the legal team to focus on critical and strategic initiatives
• Drive efficiency via process improvements and technology adoption
• Modernize risk-management protocols
• Improve service delivery and reduce bottlenecks

Legal Process There are various internal and external factors that present opportunity before an organization through changeof organization’s present legal departments. W&S’s legal process advisors help clients develop systematic, intuitive, and efficient processes. We can assist client’s legal processes in the following Key areas

• Client contract management
• Supplier contract management
• Dawn-raid readiness
• Compliance protocols
• Corporate management
• Litigation management

Legal Risk and Matter Management Having a defined risk framework and strategy to pre-empt critical legal risks is always better than being pre occupied later with extinguishing fire. We at W&S work in close collaboration with our clients and our legal professionals to conduct a current risk assessment, gap analysis and prepare a roadmap to close the gap. We help manage legal risk in the following significant areas

• Contract management
• Litigation/disputes
• Legislation changes
• Data privacy

Legal Sourcing W&S Legal can help clients build a model that can accomplish more with less, by balancing in-house resources with technology and external services providers.

Our sourcing teams have a deep knowledge of legal sourcing strategies W&S Legal can help organizations identify an efficient, effective alignment of tasks with appropriate resources, enabling a nimbler, more effective legal function with the ability to refocus on strategic priorities.
Legal Technology Technology can help mitigate risk with greater efficiency and reliability, automate routine and repetitive tasks, and help free up the team for strategic priorities, achieving more with less.

W&S Legal can help General Counsels and their teams choose and implement the technology that works for them—tuned to their people and their goals.

We help them:

• Understand what’s out there
• Understand what’s right for them
• Design and build a legal technology architecture that can deliver enterprise-wide value