Optimus Legal provides consulting services to in-house legal departments that enable them to gain external and objective advice and recommendations, as well as access to our specialized expertise and the practical knowledge that we have gained working with a variety of other legal departments and organizations. Our outsourcing services may also allow you to implement and complete a special project that your staff does not have the bandwidth to take on.
Strategic Department Plans
Legal Department Strategic Business Plans are a tremendous resource for demonstrating value and taking your department to the next level. We work collaboratively with legal departments to create unique overall plans of action that begin with identifying departmental goals and objectives, and lead to the realization of those goals by determining practical and workable implementation steps that will work within your corporate culture. (more).
Client Surveys
Do you really know how your legal department is thought of internally? Often, the folks who have to work with you tomorrow are hesitant to mention if things aren’t perfect today. That’s where Optimus Legal can help. We conduct confidential client surveys that help you find out how the department and it’s attorneys are perceived today; we collect the findings, and we provide an in-depth analysis that will help you to identify how to do even better going forward (more)
Staffing Audits
Staffing Audits help to improve corporate legal department performance by examining the legal department’s allocations of key staff resources and, based on the “highest and best use” principle, to refocus the energies of the professionals involved in order to maximize efficiency and productivity and, ultimately, to enhance the value of the legal department. (more)
Team Building
Most of us understand the many positive benefits associated with working effectively as a team. In fact, the corporate environment is one in which effective departmental and interdepartmental teams are highly valued and are often critical for departmental and corporate success. But in the course of our overloaded work days, we rarely consider how increasing this skill set (more)