None of these are easy questions.  There is no standard formula.  The best opportunities for your law department will be the product of your company's business, the nature of your company's legal work, and the talents of your in-house professionals.  Each company needs to find the "right mix" of in-house and outside providers of legal services.

Walker Clark members have more than a decade of experience in helping corporate law departments achieve the right balance between in-house delivery of legal services and outsourcing to law firms.  Specifically we can:

• Help you to identify and validate the best opportunities to improve cost-effectiveness of the corporate legal function, whether by bringing more work in-house or sending more of it out.

• Design and manage -- from start to finish -- a competitive outsourcing of all or part of your workload to the right law firm for the job

• Manage an "in-sourcing" project to create in-house service delivery capabilities at a lower net cost to the company than using an outside firm.

• Develop a set of simple, reliable measurements to help you manage the outsourcing (or in-sourcing) for the best financial results.

Contact us to learn more.