Blog / Why Instruct Counsel can be the answer to your legal issue
To those who have a legal background, it’s no surprise that for some organisations around the world, legal challenges may arise which their in-house legal team won’t have the necessary expertise to deal with.
Understanding how you can solve an internal legal issue efficiently and successfully can take a lot of research and planning before you start to source proven external expertise to come in and work with your team.
With more and more countries emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve seen an increase in legal issues around litigation, insolvency, procurement and supply chain management, risk and compliance, enforceability of contracts and avenues for termination and workforce entitlements and employment law.
To deal with these legal issues efficiently and successfully, organisations will find proven external expertise to come in and work with their teams, but which type of law firms get hired by fellow in-house counsel?
In our latest Lexology survey report, Hiring Outside Counsel, we found that 66% of respondents regularly hire a mixture of full-service and boutique firms.
But wait – what’s the difference in choosing between a boutique and full-service law firm?
Boutique firms may be the better choice when dealing with a highly complex or specialised legal issue that requires a very specific level of expertise, while full-service firms offer a variety of experts capable of handling a wider range of topics.
The effective selection of external legal services is becoming an important skill for in-house lawyers because, inevitably, complex legal scenarios will follow this pandemic. They will need to be more selective than ever in seeking out the best help to solve issues that may not have arisen before COVID-19.
For example, your organisation may have to deal with more niche challenges such as attempting to enforce contractual force majeure clauses in light of the pandemic, or reworking employee contracts to reflect the increased need to work from home.
If you’re looking for quality, proven legal expertise to help your organisation overcome their legal challenge, start your search by using Instruct Counsel today.
