CHALLENGE

The General Counsel of a Fortune 50 company wants to increase the in-house capacity of the legal department. The GC feels that some of the legal work being sent to outside counsel can be kept inhouse but wants to find a way to do that without increasing headcount or incurring substantial costs.

SOLUTION

The GC worked with LegalEase to identify two main areas of practice which could be kept in-house on a regular basis:

• Document review and
• Legal research

LegalEase engaged in time-intensive document review and legal research, and prepared memoranda for the GC and his staff, at a fraction of the cost that outside counsel would charge.

CONCLUSIONS

The company reaped the following advantages by using LegalEase
Solutions:

• Retain control over legal work and increase in-house capacity
  without making any changes to the legal department
• Realize cost-savings of up to 90% on certain types of work
  without severing ties to outside counsel
• Quick turn-around time on document review and legal
  research