Legal Consulting

Updated February 18, 2025 | Argopoint Consulting

WHAT IS Legal Consulting?

A legal consultant is a vital resource to even the most sophisticated, "best-in-class" in-house legal departments and legal operations organizations. Experienced legal consultants can bring legal transformation and change management knowledge, propriety industry insights, familiarity with best practices of top legal departments, and an objective viewpoint. 

Effective legal consultants identify and implement significant and impactful ways to leverage people, processes and technology to achieve greater legal cost savings and legal department stakeholder satisfaction. Typical engagements help in-house clients improve effectiveness and reduce legal spend by 5-20% on average.

Legal Consulting: Overview

Corporate legal departments face no shortage of legal expertise from outside counsel; however, there have historically been few advisers who have offered effective management consulting advice to legal department leaders. 

Argopoint legal consultants have extensive experience identifying legal department opportunities for improvement and recommending practical and implementable solutions.  We help guide legal department strategic planning with legal-specific metrics and KPI-based analytics supported by our real-world experience. 

Our legal consulting approach always begins with a diagnostic.  We perform an assessment of the current organization and how the legal department can better support the business goals. We look at how  legal technology, department structure, processes, and people are contributing to the effectiveness of the department, and recommend alternative approaches, when warranted.  

Please note, Argopoint LLC is not a law firm; it does not offer, and is not authorized to provide, legal advice or counseling in any jurisdiction.   Argopoint, LLC is a management consulting firm and not a CPA firm: we do not provide attest services, audits, or other engagements in accordance with standards established by any public accounting regulatory authority in any jurisdiction. 

Legal Consulting: Solutions and Savings

We design and deliver best in class management solutions for the world’s top legal departments, enabling superior performance, cost savings, and leadership within the company and industry. 

As a premier legal management consulting firm with 20 years of experience crafting legal department strategy and optimizing corporate legal management, we have driven legal transformation in some of the worlds largest corporate legal departments and legal operations functions:  

• two of the top ten largest legal departments in the US

• four of the Fortune 20

• five Global 50 multi-nationals

• a 400+ attorney in-house legal department

• two of the FTSE 20

• sovereign governments

• the largest not-for-profit organization in the US

• the largest company in the world

Understanding where your department is on the strategic planning roadmap for a legal department, and how progress on that path can be accelerated, is a critical first step.  Argopoint's expertise and knowledge of the best practices and pitfalls of legal change management is why top legal department leaders speak to us first when they want to get started.   Meaningful, sustainable improvements are not easy in the complex in-house legal context - an early conversation with an objective outside expert improves the success rate enormously. 

 Please note, Argopoint LLC is not a law firm; it does not offer, and is not authorized to provide, legal advice or counseling in any jurisdiction.  Argopoint, LLC is a management consulting firm and not a CPA firm: we do not provide attest services, audits, or other engagements in accordance with standards established by any public accounting regulatory authority in any jurisdiction.