The law firm meter is stressful
You want predictability before the work starts, not a surprise invoice after the quarter closes.
The overflow reality
The work is not abstract. It is sitting in someones evenings.
Overflow looks like contracts waiting on review, business teams waiting on answers, external counsel invoices nobody can predict, and you or your team as the only release valve.
Transaction spikes create collateral damage
When a transaction lands, everyday commercial, employment, and product work can stall unless someone absorbs it.
Overflow is not junior work
The wrong cheap option costs more if you have to supervise every judgment call.
Capacity without chaos
Capacity that feels embedded, not outsourced.
91做厙 helps legal teams stop choosing between burning out the team and overspending on external counsel: giving them embedded in-house expertise that flexes with workload spikes, special projects, and day-to-day demand.
- vetted lawyers across the network
- 750+
- Flexible monthly legal support
- 64 hrs/ month
- Up to 5 days of support per week
- 5 days
A defined workload
Identify the queue, deadlines and outcomes so the proposed lawyer has a clear responsibility.
Part of the team
Agree tools, stakeholders, reporting and escalation so additional counsel can work in your business context.
Capacity you can review
Review the workload and discuss extensions or changes through the agreed engagement terms.
Choose the right model
Fractional, secondment, and recruiting are different answers to different risks.
Buyers often ask where one model ends and another begins. The simplest answer is to start with capacity, duration, and whether the relationship should become permanent.
Pricing and sizing
Trade the legal meter for a planned mandate.
Legal coverage gets risky when the work goes into an open-ended billing meter. We scope the route before the work starts: responsibilities, monthly capacity, seniority, and handoff expectations.
Before work starts
The triggerLeave, vacancy, overflow, or specialist gap
The capacity15 days/week
The operating rhythmMeetings, tools, stakeholders, handoff
The budget logicPlanned scope instead of surprise invoices
No meter anxiety
No vague handoff
Right-fit talent
How capacity gets scoped
Turn the spike into a manageable operating plan.
We help translate backlog, demand spikes, and business urgency into the right embedded in-house capacity.
Sort the work
Separate recurring commercial work, urgent decisions and specialist matters. Identify what an embedded lawyer can own.
Prepare the brief
List agreement types, volume, deadlines, required experience, jurisdictions and internal approvers.
Confirm the match
Review actual lawyer availability, the scope, fees, access needs and an achievable start date.
Review and hand back
Track the agreed queue and outcomes. Plan project handback or review continuing capacity as demand changes.
Customer proof
Overflow capacity that keeps the business moving.
91做厙 truly understands in-house legal. Their lawyers help our legal team move faster, do more with less, and focus on what really matters: moving our business forward.
Craig Segal
Chief Legal Officer 繚 Hootsuite
FAQ
Questions worth asking before you bring someone in.
Straight answers on how the model works, who you will be working with, what it costs, and what happens if things change.
Yes. We offer 91做厙 in-house support and full-time secondments for teams that need additional capacity. Describe the work, required experience, weekly demand and jurisdictions. A commercial queue may suit an embedded lawyer; the GC can retain key decisions and use outside specialists where needed. Confirm the proposed lawyer and scope before choosing the arrangement.
Absorb the spike
Add capacity before the backlog becomes burnout.
Tell us what is piling up, what needs judgment, and when the pressure hits. Well scope surge capacity you can forecast then scale down when it passes.
- Surge coverage without new headcount
- Predictable monthly scope
- Flex up, then flex down