Legal Operations Consulting

Legal Operations Consulting applies business principles and new ways of working to help you optimise the delivery of legal services to your organisation. The greater efficiencies achieved enable GCs and in-house teams to go beyond managing legal risk and become a business partner, supporting the wider objectives of the business.

Our practice offers:

• strategic legal consulting - advising in-house legal teams on how they can support the wider objectives of the business
• legal operations advisory - advising on management of legal operations functions
• legal operations delivery - assisting in the delivery of specific projects or mandates made up of work likely to be delivered with the involvement of, or at the request of, a legal operations team

Benefits of legal operations

More efficiency

• Achieving more with less as a result of new working methods and tools

Better insight

• Managing the function more effectively
• Sharing information across the business

Effective technology

• Defining the structure required for new technology
• Creating a framework and refining needs

Upcoming events

Roundtable series: Enabling your legal function to be the best they can be.

We are excited to launch our Legal Operations roundtable series, hosted by Stephanie Hamon, Head of Legal Operations Consulting. This 10-part series will take a practical look at issues affecting GCs and in-house counsel. Each session will focus on a different topic from the Legal Operations Health Check eBook, with useful tips and tools to help GCs become strategic business partners.

Register for the next roundtable event or review the content of previous events below.

2021 Roundtable topics:

Dates to be confirmed soon
Event #4: Technology tools
Event #5: Workflow management
Event #6: Communications
Event #7: Financial management
Event #8: Legal work streams
Event #9: Legal team management
Event #10: Knowledge management

Next steps

For more information: Download the Legal Operations Consulting brochure

And to discuss how we can help your business please contact Stephanie Hamon.

Project briefing: If you have a project you would like us to assist with we would be delighted to help. Please provide any information on where you are or what you would like to achieve, and we can discuss from there.

Scoping exercise / workshop: If you are unsure where to start or areas to prioritise, we can provide a consultative workshop for you and your teams. Following the session we would provide you with a prioritisation of opportunities together with a solution design.

A Regional GC of a global financial institution

“I very much appreciated working with Stephanie and her team. It was refreshing and encouraging to have someone with first-hand experience who understood the challenges and was able to provide concrete steps on how to advance and address topics. I particularly appreciated her ability to interface between legal and the business as well as her ability to articulate legal value and vision to business stakeholders.”

Legal Business, 22 July 2020

“While the stature of in-house legal teams at financial institutions has increased post crisis, Barclays in particular under Hoyt has been widely considered as having one of the more forward-thinking and innovative legal departments. [….]. The most obvious manifestation of this was the banking giant’s final panel review in mid-2018 ahead of a long-planned phasing out of formal reviews by 2021. Alongside Hoyt, operations leaders Stéphanie Hamon (now at Norton Rose Fulbright), […] led on Barclays’ reshaping, generating savings believed to run into the tens of millions of pounds.”