Legal Consulting

WHAT IS Legal Consulting?

A legal consultant is a vital resource to even the most sophisticated, "best-in-class" in-house legal departments - experienced legal consultants can bring management expertise, propriety industry knowledge, insights into best-in-class practices, and an objective viewpoint.

Effective legal consultants takes a "holistic" and  "360-degree" approach to identifying and implementing significant and impactful ways to leverage people, processes and technology.  Typical engagements help in-house clients improve effectiveness and reduce legal spend by 5-20% on average. 

Legal Consulting: Overview

Corporate legal departments have been saturated with excellent legal expertise from outside counsel; however, there have 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 implementable solutions.  

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.

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

Legal Consulting: Solutions and Savings

Argopoint is a leading legal department consulting firm dedicated to helping leading corporate legal departments with their most important management challenges.  We design and deliver management consulting solutions that enable our  clients to achieve leadership within their industry, enhance core legal and management capabilities, and operate at superior levels of performance.

Some of the largest legal departments in the world rely on our legal consulting support, including:   

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

As legal department consulting is still a relatively new field, we invite you to speak to us to gain a better understanding of how we have helped the legal departments of Fortune 500 companies improve their performance. 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.

Understanding where your department is on the journey, and how progress on that path can be accelerated is a critical first step.  Argopoint's expertise and knowledge of leading departments "best-practices" are reasons why 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 can improve the chances of success significantly.