Your Legal Manager’s Services

Your Legal Manager Handles Your Legal Work as “Outsourced In-House Counsel” to Supplement your In-House Lawyers and Manages Your Legal Work Handled by Your Outside Law Firms

Companies today face complex and difficult legal problems and risks.  They need sophisticated legal services in connection with transactions and commercial relationships as well as with litigation and governmental compliance.  As a result of the number and complexity of the company’s legal needs, to handle them successfully the company will have to rely on advice and assistance from its in‑house legal team and its outside attorneys.   That often results in an overloaded in-house general counsel and excessive law firm fees.  Unless the company increases the budget for its in-house legal staff or bears the expense of additional work by its law firms, its legal needs will likely be delayed, mismanaged or done with substandard care.  Your Legal Manager solves that dilemma by providing the services of John A. St. Clair, an experienced corporate and transactional attorney, on an outsourced, as needed, basis.  John will handle legal work on agreements and general corporate matters at a lower rate than outside counsel and with timely turnaround of priority work.

John also can supervise and manage the work done by the company’s outside counsel to relieve the general counsel and executives from that administrative chore, enabling them to focus on high-value strategic goals.  Executives of companies without an in‑house attorney or in-house legal staff to manage the company’s legal needs find it difficult to determine what legal representation their company needs and the time framework within which it must be done.  It can be time-consuming, unnecessarily expensive, and inefficient for the company’s executives to assess and prioritize these needs and then find, hire, and manage lawyers to handle them.  As a result, executives often delegate the management of the company’s legal work to outside attorneys retained to handle specific matters.  Because those attorneys have a narrow view of the company’s legal needs and little insight into its business strategies and goals those needs affect, they are not able to identify and assess potential legal risks facing the company in areas outside their particular assignment.

Hiring Your Legal Manager to work alongside a company’s general counsel and other executives can eliminate the inefficiencies and mitigate the risk of negative results that come from the executives directly managing the company’s legal projects or delegating the management to the outside law firms who are handling the work.  By taking time to learn the company’s legal needs from a company-wide perspective, Your Legal Manager provides the efficiency of John A. St. Clair handling legal work as its outsourced in-house counsel and his capability to identify and prioritize its legal needs and manage the outside attorneys handling those needs.