Utilizing Third-Party Legal Support to Manage a Labor Shortage | Part 1
Whether caused by the effects of health and public safety concerns, market volatilities, or other reasons, managing a labor shortage is often the most complex and difficult task facing a human resources department. The task can be even more complicated for law firms and in-house legal departments, since there are significant potential risks in pursuing the traditional strategy of retaining temporary employees from a staffing agency. These risks include:
- Reduction in current-staff productivity as temporary staffing must be “brought up to speed”
- Sub-level productivity from temporary staffing causing either wasted or unnecessary/excessive billing
- Client dissatisfaction with subpar performance, excessive billing, or other deficiencies
- Cybersecurity and client/document confidentiality risks
- Discordant integration endangering team culture
- Risks associated with malpractice and violations of ethical rules and requirements
- Dangers of quickly hitting upper constraints on what work product the temporary staffing can provide
- Lack of flexibility
- Lost opportunities to exploit innovations and technology
Consider third-party legal support as an alternative
A less risky – and more cost-effective – alternative is to retain the services of a third-party legal support team to alleviate a labor shortage. Integrating a flexible legal support team into everyday operations ensures that basic and essential requirements are met with respect to cost-efficient and on-time completion of assigned tasks, while also ensuring protection of confidentiality and client/document security. A few examples of large-scale tasks that can be effectively shifted to a legal support team include:
- Discovery document reviews, processing, coding, marking, and production
- Business transactional due diligence services including review, task-tracking, and document crafting services
- Similar services related to real estate transactions
- Services for other types of contracts including template-drafting, review, and related tasks
- Providing the legal research foundation for pleadings and briefs
For more information about how Baer Reed’s legal support solutions can support your business, contact us online or call us today at 1-888-433-1990.
- On April 1, 2022
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