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New Hire Justification Business Case™ - Template
The template you need to help you get your desired headcount
The Problem
You need to convince your board / finance department to allow you to hire more personnel.
Related challenges include:
- your team is permanently operating beyond capacity
- there is limited budget for additional headcount
- you have limited time to produce the “convincing arguments” needed to get the headcount you need to free up your team’s capacity
- to win over the board, you will need solid arguments AND a document that is easy for them to read
- you are happy to write a proposal, you just don’t want it to take all weekend…
- you rarely ask for extra headcount, so are out of practice
- there are no templates online for you to use
Cancel those plans as another unnecessary night of cobbling something together lies ahead. Hopefully it will do…
The GLS Solution
The New Hire Justification Business Case™ template helps you to efficiently make a compelling case to add headcount for your legal team - a difficult feat for most legal teams.
In an environment where legal team leaders all too often hear a “no” to their resourcing requests., critical care must be taken in formulating legal team requests – especially headcount increases.
New Hire Justification Business Case™ provides a clear framework for generating a compelling case for securing additional legal headcount and does so in a time efficient manner.
The template allows you to simply “plug-in” key points of information against a range of compelling reference points that experience show helps build a successful legal headcount request.
Our template provides a full universe of factors that you can consider / include as you see fit to and helps to ensure that your “case” is as compelling and precise as possible.
This template covers: job role, positive impacts, objective supporting data, comparisons to peer institutions, audits of your staff’s “current state”, consequences of not hiring, clear articulation of desired candidate(s), and drafting notes & tips.
Let GLS provide a robust framework of considerations so that you can spend your time “fine crafting” the specifics of your headcount increase that resonate in the context of your business.
Problem Solved.
Solution Deliverables
GLS New Hire Template: | A template toolkit to help you efficiently prepare a compelling new hire justification case for your legal team. This template focuses on the justification of new legal team members – professional staff. |
Guidance | Guidance notes and drafting tips to help you craft a your business case as efficiently as possible. |
Pricing Comparison
| Big Law Review | US Rate | GLS Cost | Minutes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partner | $850 | $999 | 1h 10m |
| Senior Associate | $640 | $999 | 1h 33m |
| Blended Rate | $520 | $999 | 1h 55m |
| Associate | $480 | $999 | 2h 05m |
| Junior Associate | $420 | $999 | 2h 22m |
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
Human Capital
General Counsel
Contracting
Legal Tech
Compliance
Managed Service
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.
