Brainstorm difficult issues with an understanding of the legal considerations.
Get a second opinion.
Validate your thinking.
Understand industry norms and common practices.
Develop strategic plans and business improvement in a legally compliant manner.
Undertake legal risk assessment.
Manage underperforming internal and external lawyers.
Is someone in the legal team going on maternity, long service leave or some other absence?
Has someone recently left and you are recruiting for the position?
Has someone been called away on a big project and you need a backfill?
Have special projects come up which could be handled with a temporary, flexible legal resource.
Do you have business units who could benefit from specialist legal training on a particular topic.
Are legal problems arising because stakeholders on the front line do not have well defined processes to follow which have been thought out from a legal point of view and structured to avoid problems in the first instance.
Are you under control most of the time but occasionally stretched thin and need that extra set of hands available on demand.