Overflow Support

In-house legal teams are constantly being asked to do more with less. Whether your team needs project support, an additional skill set, or has growing resource needs, LSaaS provides you with access to our legal teams through a dedicated Relationship Manager, at a fixed monthly cost.

Our LSaaS lawyers are ‘in-house specialists’ who understand the unique challenges and ways of working for internal legal functions. Through our Relationship Manager model, we seamlessly integrate into your business to support your legal team and commercial stakeholders with day-to-day legal matters.

Our fixed-fee model gives you complete budget certainty, and we leverage technology to increase efficiency and transparency of workflow and reporting, giving you clear, data-backed visibility of the value you’re getting.

What you get as an Overflow Support client

  • • Dedicated 'in-house specialist' Relationship Manager

    • Dedicated email address for matter intake (e.g. [email protected])

    • Comprehensive onboarding including workshops with key stakeholders in your business, review of your key documents and background materials

    • Unlimited BAU advice of up to 20 minutes with Law Squared lawyers across key practice areas (commercial, corporate, litigation and employment)

    • Regular telephone catch-up and WIP updates with Relationship Manager

    • Regular reporting and reviews

    • Quarterly CPD sessions conducted as your choice of webinar or as face-to-face training, with no limit on practice area or scope

    • Same day response time to emails and calls

    • Standard matter turnaround time of 5 business days (unless otherwise agreed on a case-by-case basis)

    • Urgent matter turnaround time of 3 business days (unless otherwise agreed on a case-by-case basis)

  • BAU support (e.g. contract drafting, review and negotiation, conducting legal research to ensure compliance with laws and regulations, addressing ad-hoc business queries, high-level advice on trademark and other IP matters, high level regulatory compliance advice including Australian and GDPR privacy advice, marketing and advertising collateral reviews, creating and uplifting templates and policies, and training and supporting internal staff as required).

  • High-level advice on non-transactional corporate work, such as corporate governance and company secretarial matters.

  • High-level advice on any stage of employment life-cycle.

  • Advice and guidance until proceedings are commenced, including Letters of Demand, etc.

*If there are matters that fall out of scope, we can provide you with a separate scope for additional fixed-fee assistance.  

Why should you use LSaaS?

Our LSaaS model is an innovative alternative to hiring a secondee or a contractor to manage overflow work. While the traditional option provides your business with a dedicated resource, it limits the skill set available to you. You’ll still need to outsource to an external law firm when matters fall outside your employee’s area of practice or for overflow support, adding to the cost of an internal hire.

Through a dedicated Relationship Manager, we invest in developing a deep understanding of your business, your goals and your ways of working. We retain that business information following our engagements, so that unlike a contractor or a secondee, we can seamlessly step in to support you again if your needs change in future.

Who uses our Overflow Support model?

How outsourcing their legal services helped Geoscape Australia thrive

In early 2020, a member of the Geoscape Australia in-house team tendered his resignation, which left Geoscape Australia one dedicated legal team member short. With a notice period of four weeks, Geoscape Australia were on the hunt for someone to fill that role, although it didn’t necessarily mean that it would be an in-house position - they were open to alternative legal models like a secondment or an external party joining their in-house team.

While exploring their options, Geoscape Australia approached Law Squared to see what alternatives we could offer.

Law Squared had previously been engaged by Geoscape Australia to carry out ad hoc work and had built a good relationship with the Geoscape Australia in-house team. Once the conversation began about what alternatives Law Squared could provide for Geoscape Australia, it was clear that LSaaS was the perfect fit for them.

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