Legal ops consulting services
The consulting we most often deliver for in-house legal teams include:
Diagnostics & roadmap
Assess how your team is operating, identify the key obstacles, and get a clear set of practical recommendations you can act on.
Process improvement
Redesign workflows to remove bottlenecks so the right people do each task. This reduces time, cost and conflict, and sets you up to leverage technology, particularly AI.
Resourcing support
Get experienced legal ops specialists in your team on secondment, by the hour, as permanent team members. This gives you legal ops capability in your team on terms that work for your team.
We work flexibly with legal teams, and can do as much or as little of the heavy lifting to improve legal operations as you need.
When teams engage us
Legal teams usually come to us because they need to find a better way to manage their workload. Sometimes this involves wanting to use technology better.
Often the root cause is the same: lawyers spending time on the wrong tasks, or working in ways that haven’t kept pace with what’s being asked of them.
Buying new technology is tempting. But AI doesn’t transform broken processes – it amplifies them. The teams that get the most from technology start with the unglamorous work of understanding how they actually operate, then fixing what’s really holding them back.
That’s exactly what we help them do.
Why Front Foot?
We get in-house legal teams: Everything we do is built on a deep understanding of how in-house legal functions actually work. We know the political realities, the resource constraints, and what it takes to bring stakeholders along with change.
Independent advice: No law firm allegiances or preferred tech vendors. Our only interest is making your team more effective.
Bespoke solutions: Designed around your team’s specific context, challenges, and stakeholders.
We fix the right problems first: We diagnose what’s really holding your team back before making recommendations, so you solve the right problems in the right order.
Senior, lean, and efficient: No large team overheads and no inflated pricing.
Want to set your legal team up for success?
David has over 20 years of experience helping in-house legal teams improve how they operate, using practical and achievable measures. He has held senior roles in-house and in law firms. Having led both legal and non-legal teams, David understands the practicalities of implementing change.
If you’re wondering how to better manage your workload, get in touch.
David Curtain
Director
david@frontfootlaw.com
0401 711 762
“Front Foot brought a deep understanding of in-house legal challenges. Their support delivered measurable benefits for our legal team and clients”.
General Counsel
Powershop
“The Front Foot work provided helpful insights into how to prioritise process improvement and quick wins to assist in streamlining and improving process” .
OPP
“Friendly and professional. I have referred people in my network and will most certainly continue to do so.”
“Front Foot has taken the time to listen and respond to the needs of our team in terms of both legal ops and resourcing. They sourced great lawyers to meet our resourcing need and the onboarding process was seamless.”
“I like how Front Foot works with such a wide variety of clients. As a result, I get the sense that whatever solution they might provide will be an industry-leading perspective.”