Legal Department Management Consulting | Argopoint
Legal consultants are a vital resource to even the most sophisticated, "best-in-class" in-house legal departments. Valuable legal consultants can bring expertise, propriety industry knowledge, insights into best-in-class practices, and an objective viewpoint.
Legal Department Consulting Services
WHAT DO LEGAL DEPARTMENT CONSULTANTS DO?
A legal consultant is a valuable resource to even the most sophisticated, "best-in-class" in-house legal departments and legal operations organizations. Experienced legal consultants can bring legal transformation and change management knowledge, propriety industry insights, familiarity with best practices of top legal departments, and an objective viewpoint.
Effective legal consultants identify and implement significant and impactful ways to leverage people, processes and technology to achieve greater legal cost savings and legal department stakeholder satisfaction. Typical engagements help in-house clients improve effectiveness and reduce legal spend by 5-20%.
PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES
The projects and initiatives legal consultants field are as varied and unique as the legal departments they serve. However, they include:
Legal department benchmarking for best practices, metrics and KPIs
Strategic planning for the legal department
Legal operations and workflow management optimization
Client Surveys for legal department stakeholders
Outside counsel management: panel and guidelines reviews, AFAs development, RFPs, e-billing initiatives
Outside counsel and provider sourcing: RFPs, reverse auctions, fee arrangements, alternative models
Organizational design: structure, staffing and workload analyses, mission and vision, offsite, and department transformation
Legal department change management projects, help with legal department innovation
Designing a suite of metrics and KPIs for legal, advising on legal analytics
Legal technology: assessments, RFPs, implementation assistance
Ancillary services and other vendor optimization, help selecting an alternative staffing model (ALSPs or LPO, for example)
ARGOPOINT CONSULTANTS
Argopoint legal consultants have extensive experience identifying legal department opportunities for improvement and recommending practical and implementable solutions. We help guide legal department strategic direction and specific goals with a business mindset, legal-appropriate metrics, a mix of qualitative and quantitative measures, and an well evidenced viewpoint.
Our legal consulting approach begins with a diagnostic. We perform an assessment of the current organization and how the legal department can better support the business goals. We look at how legal technology, department structure, processes, and people are contributing to the effectiveness of the department, and recommend alternative approaches, when warranted.
We design and deliver best in class management solutions for the world’s top legal departments, enabling superior performance, cost savings, and leadership within the company and industry.
Please note, Argopoint LLC is not a law firm; it does not offer, and is not authorized to provide, legal advice or counseling in any jurisdiction. Argopoint, LLC is a management consulting firm and not a CPA firm: we do not provide attest services, audits, or other engagements in accordance with standards established by any public accounting regulatory authority in any jurisdiction.
Updated February 18, 2025 | Argopoint Consulting