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Legal Resourcing for Australian Businesses
Staff your legal function the way it actually needs to be staffed — retainer, project or secondment, on fixed fees.
Legal resourcing is how modern businesses staff their legal function without carrying the full-time headcount. Instead of hiring a permanent lawyer or paying firm rates for every matter, you deploy a senior commercial lawyer on the shape of engagement that actually fits — monthly retainer, defined project, or on-site secondment.
Who Uses Legal Resourcing
- Growing businesses that need consistent legal support but not a full-time hire
- In-house teams covering parental leave, resignation gaps, or a spike in work
- PE and VC-backed portfolio companies that need GC-level input between board cycles
- Businesses running a specific programme — a systems rollout, a fundraise, a compliance uplift
The Three Engagement Shapes
Legal resourcing is not one product. It is a way of thinking about legal work as capacity you dial up and down:
- Retainer — a fixed monthly fee for ongoing coverage. See our Fractional General Counsel service.
- Project — a defined scope with a fixed fee and a delivery date. Contract stack rebuilds, privacy uplifts, compliance programmes.
- Secondment — a lawyer embedded in your team, on-site or remote, for a defined period. See Secondment Lawyers.
Why It Works Better Than the Old Model
The traditional model is either full-time hire (expensive, hard to reverse, brittle if the person leaves) or law firm by the hour (expensive per matter, no continuity, every call starts with a briefing). Legal resourcing is the middle path — the same lawyer, the same accountability, the cost you actually planned for.
What Sits Inside a Typical Engagement
- All ordinary-course contract review, drafting and negotiation
- Employment law — offers, performance, exits, restructures
- Privacy, ACL, industry compliance
- Board and leadership legal input on strategic decisions
- Managing external specialists — litigation, tax, M&A
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