Value-Added Benefits - Your Legal Manager

Your Legal Manager Provides Cost-Effective, Value-Added Benefits to Companies, with or without an in-house General Counsel

Companies with or without an in-house general counsel can benefit from using Your Legal Manager, which provides the services of John A. St. Clair. John has broad corporate experience in agreements and transactions, including:

Debt and equity financing agreements
Master manufacturing and service agreements
Media marketing and development agreements (including influencer and video production agreements)
Non-disclosure (confidentiality) and similar agreements
Investment agreements, including convertible note and preferred stock purchase agreements
Merger and Acquisition transactions (including tender offer acquisitions and spin-off divestures)

Companies with an in-house general counsel hire Your Legal Manager to fill in gaps in the legal group’s expertise and to handle and complete projects being delayed when the legal group’s workflow capacity is overloaded. For example, the volume of agreements, such as those listed above, can temporarily exceed the time the general counsel and legal group have available. That can produce lawyer burnout and cause the legal group to miss issues in complex agreements and transactions. The legal group’s delay in completion of projects can lead the company’s business groups to proceed without the legal group’s involvement. When the legal group is overloaded, projects can be completed without receiving sufficient expert attention. These situations create unacceptable risks to the company and damages the legal group’s reputation with its business clients.

For companies without an in-house general counsel and legal group the executives must identify, prioritize, and manage outside law firms to handle, the company’s legal work. Doing so is doubly inefficient. First, executives dislike having responsibility for the company’s legal work, for which they were not trained, and, second, performing that legal function takes the executives away from the high-level strategic business decisions their education and experience prepared them to perform.

Fractional counsel, such as Your Legal Manager, aided by AI tools, provides a solution for both conditions of legal work inefficiencies. For companies with a general counsel, Your Legal Manager adds “in-house” legal capacity, enabling legal projects to be completed timely and with materially less expense than using outside law firms. With Your Legal Manager’s in-house approach to projects, the general counsel retains transparent control of the legal work, often not true when projects are turned over to outside law firms. For Companies without a general counsel, using Your Legal Manager frees the executives from managing the legal work, yet provides experienced “in-house” management of the companies’ outside law firms. In both cases, the company and Your Legal Manager prioritize the importance and urgency of unresolved legal matters and decide whether the project can best be handled by the in-house legal group, by Your Legal Manager, or by an outside law firm. By following that course on a periodic basis and when new problems arise, the company’s legal work becomes a manageable business function rather than a series of ad hoc, episodic business interruptions. As a result of the analysis and planning of each legal project, the company’s executives and legal team can focus on their jobs and not the company’s legal matters.