Advisory Services

Building Organisations Where Talent Thrives and Drives Value.

When your legal department is aligned with the strategic needs of your organisation, synergies, improved efficiencies and bottom-line results occur. To make that happen, your in-house legal team needs to be set up for success.

Major, Lindsey & Africa’s Advisory Services group partners with GCs, executive leadership, legal operations and individual lawyers to examine and assess your current state and present personalised recommendations to take your legal team to the next level.

Organisational & Operational Design

We work with you to align your legal department to where your business is today and where it is headed. We provide a comprehensive analysis of your internal team, your outside counsel and other vendors as well as the technology your department uses.

Financial Analysis
We examine your costs associated with your legal and compliance obligations and then provide strategies for reducing those costs so that you can reinvest in the areas that matter most to you.
Resourcing Assessment & Strategy
We assess your organisation’s alignment to the business and then build a roadmap that leads you towards a more effective, efficient and strategical alignment, offering recommendations on headcount, external resourcing, process and more.
Technology Selection
We amplify the effectiveness of your team by identifying technology solutions that fit the needs of your department, the demands of your business and your budget.

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How to Maximize Your In-House Legal Technology Investments

Technology investments are best positioned for success when the right organizational structure is in place and partnerships are solidified—if not in practice yet, then certainly through future-state design.
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How to Maximize Your In-House Legal Technology Investments

Strategic Talent Development

Many of the skills necessary to be a highly impactful in-house lawyer are not taught in law school or law firms. We can help hone a legal team and its individuals’ skills through a variety of services:

Leadership & Strategic Skills Development
For the best leaders, learning never stops. We offer training designed to help your legal professionals and lawyers become trusted advisors with the business acumen needed to excel as leaders within the team and organisation.
New Leader Support & Integration
Whether you are a general counsel looking to make a deeper impact or an in-house counsel striving towards the next step in your career, executive coaching can help you become the true strategic partner your legal and executive teams need.
Talent Consulting
Retaining and growing the legal talent on your team is a priority for any business. Let us help you craft assessments and career development plans so that you can give your lawyers a tailored roadmap that can lead them to their own success.

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Courageous Change: How to Change a Law Department When Everything is Going Smoothly

The best leaders identify the need and lead change before the need for change becomes obvious to everyone.
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Courageous Change: How to Change a Law Department When Everything is Going Smoothly

Technology Assessment & Selection

Collaborating with clients to develop technology plans that support corporate functions, fit within the team’s culture and meet the financial requirements as well as the legal, risk and compliance obligations of the organization.

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How Midsize City Firms Are Luring Talent Away From BigLaw

In the wake of the post-pandemic hiring surge many law associates are reevaluating their priorities, and with midsize City firms offering a better work-life balance, greater focus on team fit and opportunities for upward mobility, the traditional legal career path offered at BigLaw firms is no longer passing muster, says Ria Karnik at Major Lindsey.
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How Midsize City Firms Are Luring Talent Away From BigLaw
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Finding Support for Your Legal Team through Nontraditional Candidates

Many managers are facing a struggle between implementing corporate strategy on behalf of the C-suite and providing the flexibility, purpose and career growth their reports seek. Post-pandemic, common feedback has been that managers are expected to do more with less—and with a lack of recognition and support.
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Finding Support for Your Legal Team through Nontraditional Candidates
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Never Cut Your Own Hair: How Women in Funds Can Negotiate for the Compensation They’re Entitled To

As a woman who has worked in the financial services and private funds industry for over 20 years, it’s saddening to see stark gender disparities when it comes to compensation.
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Never Cut Your Own Hair: How Women in Funds Can Negotiate for the Compensation They’re Entitled To

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