As your life sciences or technology startup grows, you may retain several law firms to handle different legal matters: one for litigation, another for patent filings and a third for regulatory work. Without a central point of coordination and without your own internal legal function, these engagements can overlap, drive up legal spend and create conflicting legal strategies.
Our outside counsel management services help founders and executives bring structure and cost control to complex legal operations. We oversee other outside counsel – like a quarterback on a football team – and seek to ensure that each law firm contributes to your company’s overall legal and strategic direction.
Our outside counsel management service helps founders and executives coordinate and oversee the work of external law firms engaged to handle specialized legal matters. We help you align every aspect of your legal operations with your company’s goals, risk tolerance and budget so that your various outside counsel firms work together under one coherent legal strategy.
Through structured counsel management, your in-house legal team can focus on core operations while we manage law firm panels and streamline communications between internal staff and external counsel.
With over three decades of experience, we act as the central point of coordination for your outside counsel, aligning legal work with your company’s business goals and operational needs. Here’s how we approach outside counsel management:
We review current outside counsel relationships, invoices and engagement letters to evaluate alignment with your legal department’s strategy, scope of work and cost expectations.
We define responsibilities, budgets and reporting standards for each law firm, ensuring that legal operations stay within the boundaries of agreed deliverables.
We serve as the single point of contact between your company and external legal teams, streamlining communication, eliminating duplicative work and helping business executives remain focused on core operations.
We monitor outside counsel deliverables, billing practices and deadlines, ensuring compliance with engagement terms, alternative fee arrangements and cost control guidelines.
We provide your leadership team with clear legal operations updates, including spend analysis, matter status and recommendations for future legal services planning.
Our counsel management model helps executives manage law firm panels with clarity, discipline and strategic alignment, improving legal spend predictability and reducing operational risk.
We primarily support life sciences and other technology startups that work with multiple law firms to cover different legal matters — like patent prosecution, litigation, regulatory compliance and fundraising. If you’re juggling specialized legal services across several firms and want more control over costs, communication and outcomes, outside counsel management can streamline your legal operations and reduce friction.
We serve as a central point of contact across law firm panels, consolidating updates, preventing overlap and making sure external counsel follow shared scopes, timelines and reporting structures. This avoids redundant work, missed handoffs or conflicting legal strategies that can emerge when firms operate in isolation.
We can coordinate a wide range of legal matters, from intellectual property filings and litigation defense to regulatory submissions and commercial contract negotiation. Whether you’re managing firms for high-stakes FDA compliance or routine data privacy audits, we help align each firm’s work with your business objectives.
The foregoing analysis is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. You should engage an experienced lawyer to help you deal with any issues of this type as they apply in your unique situation.
