Using Lawyers

If you are exasperated by lawyers, you are not alone. Resentment about the cost of, or the need to use, lawyers has long been a feature of the business scene. Frustration with advice which appears to thwart commercial objectives and bemusement about legal niceties and jargon do nothing to help. Few other professions have earned their own category in joke anthologies, but the huge number of jokes about lawyers are a measure of the need for therapy!

In-house lawyers can contribute hugely to sucessful business development and preservation. Why not try one on an interim basis?

If the establishment of an in-house function makes no sense, there is usually scope for obtaining better value from your external advisers, ranging from reducing "repeat" business which does not merit consultation to involving them earlier in situations or transactions where the cost of remedial or damage limitation work could be significant. Most external advisers will welcome more coherence in the relationship with their client.