In-house legal departments sometimes find themselves shorthanded due to unexpected departures, planned leaves of absence, hiring freezes or sudden workload spikes. When this happens, Saul Ewing’s Capacity Expansion Service helps fill critical gaps by:
- Providing one or more attorneys to cover a specific service or scope of services on an “FTE-equivalent” basis
- Eliminating the need to find a single individual with a wide-ranging skill set since we can easily staff a team of lawyers to handle the workload in various areas
- Providing the service for a monthly fee based on an estimate of the salary and benefits that would be paid to the FTE being replaced
We staff our Capacity Expansion team with attorneys whose skill sets most align with the client needs at hand. However, the service is especially geared toward providing legal services that general counsel may otherwise hesitate to send to outside lawyers who bill at hourly rates, such as:
- Routine transactional matters
- Day-to-day employment matters
- Routine commercial disputes
- Commercial contract review and negotiation
Our team of lawyers, ranging from mid-level associates to senior partners, has broad experience in core practice areas. Most also have non-legal business experience in industries that include information technology, manufacturing, life sciences, consulting and finance. Supplementing our dedicated Capacity Expansion Service team are lawyers with subject matter experience in areas such as employment, tax, intellectual property, health care, privacy and cybersecurity.
