You may have a legal team and require further specialist legal support, or you may be a business that doesn’t require a full-time in-house legal team.  Burke Lawyers’ Flex Legal Services is an innovative, competitively priced solution to handle your legal needs with a legal team that understands your business and objectives, enabling us to integrate seamlessly into your business and dovetail into your business strategy with tailored legal and commercial actions that lead to effective, informed, and forward-moving results.

This model can be especially beneficial for:

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) looking for affordable, scalable legal support.

Startups and Entrepreneurs in need of quick, flexible legal assistance for growth and compliance.

Large Enterprise & Legal Departments seeking discrete legal support, reducing in-house legal team workload and addressing resourcing shortfall.

Flex Legal can support your current legal requirements with:

A Dedicated Legal Team:  Lawyers and other legal professionals dedicated to and who already know your business, providing consistent, trusted and reliable legal support and advice.

Legal Team Support:  Legal resourcing to complement your existing internal legal team (if any). Additionally, manage your legal, contractual, advisory and commercial resourcing gaps – vacant positions, annual leave and absences backfilled.

Strategic Legal Planning: Proactive legal strategies to help you navigate complex business challenges.

Employee Training: Legal issue, compliance and risk training for your employees to ensure compliance and mitigate risks.

Day-to-Day Legal Support:  Assistance with everyday commercial and business-related legal matters, from contracting and employment issues to intellectual property management, relieving you of the burden of navigating these issues and teaching new advisers about you and your business, allowing you to focus on your business, strategy and stakeholders.

Virtual Counsel: This is our full service outsourced legal function which can be utilised as an alternative to establishing your own in-house legal team, or on an as-needs basis for various operational and compliance needs. No need for in-person visits (unless you prefer this); receive expert advice remotely.

How we work

We develop a personalised workplan at the outset that maps out your business needs with priorities and timeframes.

Where appropriate, we can start with a tailored Legal Health Check that identifies and gives insight into the legal and compliance needs and vulnerabilities in your business and provides priorities and recommendations on steps to improve and protect the business.

Benefits of this time with your business at the outset to understand its operations, strategy and objectives means:

• You get ahead of risk and legal and commercial issues as they arise, instead of worrying about them and waiting for them to become real problems; and
• You save the business time, money and inconvenience down the track, in having trusted legal advisers on call who understand the business and its owners as and when we are required.

Other Flex Legal Benefits include: