The CEO of a multinational professional services firm didn’t have confidence that its’ in-house legal function was working effectively and efficiently to identify & manage legal risk in a timely and cost-effective manner. Whilst working with that company, the in-house legal function was transformed over 6 months into a cohesive, valued and effective service to support the company through process improvement, change culture drive and greater engagement. Achievements included:
- Demonstrated increase in proactive risk management within 6 months.
- Reduction in the insurance premium by $500K pa.
- Substantially decreased external legal spend from $1.5m pa to $450K pa.
- Substantially decreased the company’s litigation profile.
- Implemented a mentoring plan for the Head of Legal.
- Assisted with the people strategy for the in-house legal function.
- Drafted the short-term and medium-term strategy for the in-house legal function.