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GLS Legal Team Job Descriptions™
Clear definition of key legal team roles
The Problem
Job roles within your legal team are not clearly defined.
Related challenges include:
- your team complains around lack of job role clarity
- few legal teams have documented position-based job roles
- job role clarity is essential for dept performance accountability
- job role clarity has impacted performance review cycles
- active job roles should permit dept. goals to be realized
- your legal team complains that progression pathways are not clear
- discussions around remuneration and job roles are too frequent
- your organization is working on a org-wide role/rem/progression matrix transformation
- job role training is not considered adequate
- the team complains about lack of clarity around organizational structure
- explaining job roles to new/potential recruits is not a simple process
Wouldn’t it be good if you could clarify legal team roles by reference to established and recognized job descriptions for key legal team positions?
The GLS Solution
GLS Legal Team Job Descriptions™ gives you access to standard job role profiles that will allow you to quickly produce customized job roles for each member of your legal team.
As the most important legal dept. asset, it is imperative that each legal team member has a clear and agreed job role that reflects and enables the realization of the legal dept’s overall objectives.
Optimized legal team performance can only be achieved if each team member knows their role and that each role within the team compliments and supports each other in the pursuit of the overall dept. operating mandate.
The clarity of each job role directly impacts resourcing, work assignments, training & development, progression, promotions and performance reviews and as such is a critical legal team performance planning tool.
This solution provides you generic job role descriptions that GLS has developed after interviewing hundreds of in-house lawyers within major “national” corporate entities who occupy various recognized in-house legal team positions including:
- Chief Legal Officer / General Counsel / Head of Legal (overall team leadership)
- Legal Directors (functional/geographic/sector legal owners)
- Senior In-House Lawyer
- Junior In-House Lawyer
- Legal Paralegal
- Privacy Officer
- Legal Secretary
- Legal Operations Officer
- Knowledge Manager
Each job description has been prepared so that the relevant team member can understand:
- Role definition
- Role responsibilities
- Legal & technical requirements
- Non-legal skills
- Value creation contributions
- Overall all team responsibilities
With GLS Legal Team Job Descriptions™ you can help rapidly define clear roles and responsibilities for your team - a precursor to achieving a high performance legal team.
Note: finalisation of job roles within your team will also depend on your approved legal dept. organisational design (eg centeralised, de-centeralised and/or hybrid) as well as the authority that the Board grants to your legal department and which can be delegated to each specific legal team role. See Related Solutions for how GLS can help in these areas.
Problem Solved.
Solution Deliverables
| GLS Legal Team Job Role Descriptions: | access GLS’s library of proforma legal team job role descriptions |
| Job Role Consultancy: | a 1 hour consultancy session in relation to the strategic use of legal team job roles and associated dependencies to optimize the performance of your team |
| Human Capital Function Overview Session: | a 90 minute GLS presentation on the critical resource enablers that make up a high performing human capital function within a world class legal team |
| Job Role Customization Support: | a 5 hour block of consultancy support to help tailor specific job roles within your organization |
| Customised Role Production: | GLS can work with you to define any job roles that might be specific to your organisation |
Solution SLA Options and US$ Pricing
| Column one | Column two | Column three | Column four | Column five |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DELIVERABLES | Basic | Standard | Advanced | Complete |
| GLS Legal Team Job Role Descriptions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| GLS Job Role Consultancy | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Human Capital Function Overview Session | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Job Role Customisation Support | ✓ | |||
| Customised Role Production | POA | |||
| Price (excl. VAT) | $3,999 | $4,999 | $7,999 | $9,999 |
Pricing Comparison
| Big Law Review | US Rate | GLS Cost | Minutes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partner | $850 | $3,999 | 04h 42m |
| Senior Associate | $640 | $3,999 | 06h 12m |
| Blended Rate | $520 | $3,999 | 07h 36m |
| Associate | $480 | $3,999 | 08h 18m |
| Junior Associate | $400 | $3,999 | 09h 54m |
GLS RPLV Legal Operations Score
This solution’s GLS RPLV impact score:
| Resource Status: | Specialist | Repeater | Formative |
| Ease of Implementation: | Complex | Average | Easy |
| Value Demonstration/Visibility: | Low | Medium | High |
| Productivity Leverage Profile: | Low | Medium | High |
| IHL Line Optimisation: | Single | Multiple | All Lines |
IHL Critical Function Optimisation Targets
This solution enhances performance across the following critical in-house functions:
In-House Legal: Critical Functions / Processes
General Counsel
Contracting
Legal Tech
Compliance
Managed Service
Human Capital
Data Analytics
Legal Operations
Service Provider
Performance
Knowledge
Co. Sec.
IP
Internal Client
Disputes
GLS has identified 15 critical in-house processes/functions that are present in every world-class legal department. To learn what these functions are, their composition and how they interrelate to deliver efficient legal team performance outcomes - visit here.
