Flexible Legal Resources (FLR)

Achieve consistency through flexibility!

Olivier Maeker
Head Flexible Resources, Legal, PwC Switzerland

The legal and regulatory world can be tough to navigate. We thrive on making the complex more accessible. It inspires and challenges us to wrestle with these problems. We want to help you understand what your legal and regulatory challenges are, then create a greatly flexible, cost-effective solution to drive value and make your life easier.

Reconciling unpredictable workflows in a fast-paced business environment and team satisfaction under the mantle of proving profitability has always been a difficult task for legal & compliance leaders.

With a partially flexible operating model, costs can be better managed, existing teams work more focused in their respective areas and disruptions can be prevented before they have a negative impact on the business.

Providing solutions for complex challenges

We provide our clients with flexible legal and compliance specialists on an interim basis.

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Typical challenges

While the economy is still recovering from the effects of the pandemic and tensions in Eastern Europe continue to drive the recession, legal & compliance departments face a difficult challenge. In many cases the workload of the departments has increased to higher levels than before the pandemic, with many unable to make permanent hires due to budget pressures that have also increased. As a result, in-house teams are working harder than ever to keep up, with burnout and turnover as an increasing consequence.

Furthermore, short-term absences due to employees’ unexpected life events or new orientation put a heavy strain on the workload of legal & compliance departments. Here it is almost impossible to get the expertise and fill the gap quickly through conventional hiring and without flexible resources.

When expertise is lacking, legal & compliance leaders often turn to traditional law firms, which have the expertise but rarely have the in-house experience and business mindset. In addition, one lacks full control over the invoicing of the work done.

With a partially flexible operating model, costs can be better managed, existing teams work more focused in their respective areas and disruptions can be prevented before they have a negative impact on the business.

Olivier MaekerHead Flexible Resources, Legal, PwC Switzerland

Why is it necessary to have a flexible legal workforce?

By gaining flexibility, you can quickly adapt your business to new circumstances and prevent work from being left undone, employees from being over-utilised or important projects from not being able to start or continue.

Our talents are specialists in the areas you are looking for and act as a fully integrated extension of your department. Workloads can be adjusted as needed, allowing department heads to focus on key priorities and be confident that the work will get done.

PwC's Flexible Legal Resources can help you achieve consistency through flexibility!

Benefits and opportunities

The use of Flexible Legal Resources allows legal departments to increase agility and quickly react to changing needs by combining the advantages of in-house and the flexibility of external counsel.

Our pool of specialists ranges from paralegals and compliance experts to lawyers with or without bar qualifications. Our rigorous selection process ensures that you can be the peace of mind of obtaining highly qualified experts with in-house experience and the business know-how to make a significant contribution to your organisation. Our rigorous selection procedures make us highly confident that our legal & compliance experts are suitable for the roles to which they are assigned.

You remain firmly in the driver’s seat when it comes to selecting – and instructing – the specialists which are best suited to your needs and company culture, whilst keeping control to meet your (variable) workload and budget needs.

Clients can rely on us for high-quality, easily accessible, and cost-effective legal and regulatory expertise.

We look forward to discussing your resourcing needs.