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As legal teams navigate the tides of change, rightsourcing emerges as a strategic compass to steer legal departments toward efficiency and innovation. Our eBook "A GC’s Guide to Rightsourcing: 3 Ways to Make the Business Case For FTE vs. Flex Talent vs. Outside Counsel" is not just a read; it's a playbook for the modern in-house counsel tackling legal's top challenges head-on. What you’ll learn: ✔️ In-depth analysis of rightsourcing in action through real-world use cases. ✔️ Pragmatic approaches to managing work surges without burning out your team. ✔️ Financial comparisons that reveal how flexibility can lead to significant savings. ✔️ A set of critical questions to guide you through the rightsourcing maze. 🤔 Is hiring a full-time employee always the answer? Should outside counsel take the wheel on every project? Discover why flexible legal talent might be your legal team's secret ingredient to thrive in a dynamic business environment. #FlexibleLegalTalent #Rightsourcing

Discover how Paragon Legal helped a top FinTech lender achieve procurement excellence with a strategic mix of long-term vision and short-term solutions. 💸 Cost Savings: The client secured three senior-level attorneys with past law firm and in-house transactional experience for a combined hourly rate of only $615. Compared to the average 2022 billable rate of over $700 per hour for a single commercial transaction partner, this was a staggering cost saving over the nine-month engagement. 🤝 Flexible Support: The Paragon team provided flexible support for nine months, allowing the client to manage the workload while searching for permanent hires. 🌟 Lasting Impact: The client reported outstanding feedback on the talent fit, improved processes, and significant cost savings. The Paragon solution resulted in new permanent additions to their team, demonstrating a win-win flexible, cost-effective solution with a lasting impact. Curious about how Paragon can help your team achieve similar success? Let's connect! #ParagonLegal #ProcurementExcellence #FinTech #FlexibleLegalTalent #CostSavings #FlexibleSupport #TempToPerm

Q2 wrap-up from my desk at Paragon Legal: On the heels of a busy end to Q1, Q2 broke records for us for client demand, adding nearly half of the new clients we had in all of 2023 (a record new logo year). While commercial and tech trans demand is not back to where it was in 2021/2022, product/privacy, employment, and legal ops were hot hot hot. The candidate pool is still very large due to layoffs and mismatched to client’s current practice area demands. Most flex talent needs are still primarily remote, even if the client themselves are back on-site, but we’re starting to see hybrid come back a bit (not with a vengeance) Budget pressure is real and clients are looking for talented attorneys in lower area COL areas and are shifting law firm work at a pace I haven’t experienced before. Clients are asking us what other departments are doing about AI, but right now it’s still mainly in the figuring it out stage. We’ve had more clients interested in testing ScreensAI through our partnership. Conversions were the highest they’ve been in 2 years, but extensions are also high, seemingly a company by company situation and hard to say it’s a macro bounceback. I’m sure I’m missing a lot. Happy to answer any questions from my seat. #legalservices #inhousecounsel #legalops

Paragon's Shannon Murphy closes out our interview tips series with essential advice everyone should heed. 👇 Wrapping up Paragon Legal's Q2 Recruiting Tip Tuesday: Interviews Edition with the reminder that, when it comes to interviews (including all the interactions leading up to them and all the interactions with your recruiter), “how you do anything is how you do everything.” Your email exchanges are indicators of your writing abilities and communication style, and your responsiveness to your recruiter will be an indication of your sense of urgency. You should expect a potential employer to extrapolate what you’ll be like as an employee from your interactions with them during the hiring process. Simple as that. #RecruitingTipTuesday #ParagonLegal #Recruiting #JobSearch #Careers #CareerDevelopment #FlexibleLegalTalent

In-house legal leaders, are you at your breaking point? You’re not alone. Many GCs and in-house attorneys are trying to accomplish more with limited resources. But at the same time, they know they need to keep workloads sustainable if they want to retain their in-house talent. We’re here to help with steps to complete rightsourcing—choosing the right people to get your team’s work done at the best cost. This article will walk you through a framework for assessing your team’s workload, delegating tasks effectively, and leveraging flexible talent to extend your department’s impact. Let’s dive in. #Rightsourcing #LegalServices #FlexibleLegalTalent https://lnkd.in/ey7p-Kj8

Be there or be square on July 16th! #legalops #inhousecounsel #legaltech #AI

So what does it really mean to "research the job"? Paragon's Michael Witcoskie breaks it down into actionable steps, starting with researching the person(s) you will be speaking with in this week's #RecruitingTipTuesday 👇 You’ve got the interview for your perfect job! What do you need to know for the interview? Everyone says to research the job, but what does that mean? Let’s break it down.  ⭐ Research the person(s) you will be speaking with.   ⭐ Research the individual job using the job description, but it’s probably not all there.   ⭐ Research the company (admittedly, this is difficult).  This is part one of a four-part series. Let’s call it my ode to Fast and Furious, Star Wars, Bourne Identity. 🧑💻Today, let’s tackle researching your interviewer(s). One way to research the interviewer is to find what you have in common. Go to their LinkedIn page. You want them to get a notification that you viewed their page. This way, they know that you are doing your homework.  > What school(s) did they go to?   > Where have they worked?  > Did you work at a competitor?   > Have they worked with someone you know?   > Is there someone out there that you didn’t realize could give you a recommendation for this position?   > Do we have shared experiences from our past that can help shape our future together? People have mentioned my past career in coaching basketball and spoken about coaching their son or daughter’s team. Does it automatically get you to the next stage? Absolutely not, but it does let me know that you have done your homework and are very interested in this position. Probably even more importantly, you are going to do your research when we put you in front of a client.  I’ll be back later this week with tips on researching the job better.  #RecruitingTipTuesday #ParagonLegal #Recruiting #JobSearch #Careers #CareerDevelopment #FlexibleLegalTalent

Huge week and biggest announcement yet for Paragon Legal! Coming at you in t-minus one month 🎉🎉 I can’t wait to celebrate with all you when I can let the cat out of the bag, but I’m too excited not to share that I’m too excited that I can’t share 🤔🤔 And right off the heels of an epic quarter - lots of previous Paragon Legal records were broken this quarter! Great week? Yes! Best week ever? The best is still yet to come Don’t believe me? We have our own dude with sign! #comeseewhatallthefussisabout #legalops #inhousecounsel

As June comes to a close, we’re excited to share some ways we've celebrated Pride 2024 and honored the LGBTQ+ community. Let's keep the celebration going! 📖 Learn about the history of Pride Month from the Smithsonian. 🌟 The ABA highlights several LGBTQ+ Legal Trailblazers. ✍️ Discover more about Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray, legal scholar, civil rights activist, and poet. 🎤 Hear Sir Ian McKellen deliver Harvey Milk’s Hope Speech. 🌈 Join your local celebration or livestream the 54th Annual San Francisco Pride Beacon of Love Parade on June 30. Access all of these resources and more at our website: https://lnkd.in/eS9BgY3W #Pride2024 #LGBTQ+ #LegalTrailblazers #PrideMonth #CelebrateDiversity

Are you an attorney, law firm, or in-house legal team curious about responsibly adopting AI, up-skilling your workforce, and positioning yourself as an innovator in an AI-driven future?   Join us for a live discussion on Tuesday, July 16, to learn how Paragon Legal integrates cutting-edge generative AI technology from Screens.ai into its legal workflows and processes. Hear from Paragon Legal President and COO Jessica Markowitz and Founder and CEO Otto Hanson 👨🚀 of Screens.ai to gain insight into their vision, approach, and real-world use cases, demonstrating how this collaboration enhances efficiency, accuracy, and client service delivery. Register for your seat today: https://lnkd.in/eniThebN #LegalServices #FlexibleLegalTalent #LegalAI #AI #LegalWebinar