Strategic Legal Solutions' core business of placing lawyers with clients means that we see many aspects of legal resource management. As a part of our daily practice, Strategic Legal Solutions experiences how the demands of legal work fluctuate, how the relative importance of different practice areas can change and how much legal work can ebb and flow. Achieving consistently good management of legal resources is a challenge and Strategic Legal Solutions is uniquely well placed to advise and assist clients.

We combine our own considerable experience as lawyers and users of legal services with the data we gather on the legal marketplace and workflow. Our knowledge of the market and the profession gives our clients the edge to achieve their maximum potential.

Our services in  this respect range from advising on project-specific work (for example, how best to deal with the staffing requirements of a large real estate transaction) to more strategic advice on practice formation, direction and development.

Our unique appreciation of the distinct cultures within our clients' different businesses, as well as our discreet and professional approach, means that we are a valued strategic partner to law firms and in-house legal departments alike. By talking frankly with both candidates and clients after each placement, we have built up a bank of knowledge which we can usefully deploy when it comes to advising in a consultancy context.

In concert with our objectivity as an independent third party, this means we are able to give sensible, reasoned and honest advice in which our clients have complete confidence.

Our instructions in this regard have ranged from advising an in-house  General Counsel on re-shaping and redeveloping his legal team as well as undertaking a review of his use of external counsel to advising law firms on the most efficient ways to achieve augmentation of existing practice areas and identifying commercially viable strategies to pursue in developing new strands of their business.

Working in close conjunction with  partners, business leaders and human resources managers,   our clients have come to see us as integral to their human resources planning - not least because by using those resources more sensibly they stand to increase their profitability.