Legal Process Consulting
Legal Departments need to delve deeper into the "Process" aspects of the legal activities handled by them. Due to increasing pressure on Legal departments, to increase efficiencies and decrease cost it has become necessary for them to analyze their current processes and ascertain the gaps. The methodology that can be followed is:
− Interviewing: Detailed discussion with various stakeholders to understand current processes, criticality/importance of certain activities, existing process documentation, performance metrics, knowledge sharing, industry perspectives etc.
− Data & information collection: Collate all information gathered by various stakeholders and evaluate current challenges/pain points faced by the Legal department. The next step is also to Identify and review key dependencies, hand-offs and controls.
− Process Map creation: Prepare detailed as-is process maps and validate these process maps with the Legal Department
− Final Analysis and Recommendation and Validation of Hypothesis: Recommendation where applicable for process reengineering, improvement and consolidation (centralization, automation, elimination, outsourcing) and preparation of strategy for addressing challenges faced by legal department.
Create detailed To-be Process maps (with proposed handoffs and controls) based on recommendations and strategy which should be validated by the Legal Department.
Evaluate outsourcing potential of certain activities and support the same along with proposed roadmap and implementation plan.
