Ten Plausible Consequences of Axing In-House Lawyers

Axing In-House Lawyers

If your law department is considering axing in-house lawyers, consideration should be given to the plausible consequences. A post from the archives of law department management expert Rees Morrison points out that law department down-sizing may lead to significant adverse consequences including the following examples Rees provides. When building the law department of the future, in-house legal teams need to consider those that will help propel the department and organization forward.

  1. Increases in time to accomplish tasks, reduction or delay in services, for example, contracts or patent filings, and any contractual work
  2. More legal work pushed back to clients to handle or simply not done
  3. Pressures to spend more on external counsel to compensate….”

Head over to Rees’ Law Department Management Blog to read more (and don’t forget to subscribe while you are there). If your company is considering down-sizing its legal department, this is definitely a post that decision-makers should consider reading first.