The Flex Legal blog

Discover what the future holds for General Counsel in our latest Flex Legal report. Based on insights from 180+ legal professionals, this free report explores the essential skills GCs need, from AI literacy to strategic leadership, to thrive in a fast-changing legal landscape.

In today's fast-paced legal landscape, matters are increasingly specialized, requiring precise combinations of domain expertise, language skills, and platform fluency—often at a moment's notice. The traditional model forces firms to choose between pulling senior partners off high-value strategy to cover execution, or saying "no" to winnable work, both of which erode profit margins and client trust. Flex Legal's new playbook introduces a strategic solution: a lawyer-managed, on-demand delivery layer that provides matter-ready specialists in approximately 24 hours. This variable capacity model allows firms to safely and compliantly plug rare expertise into live matters, ensuring that partners stay focused on judgement while execution is handled by the right grade of professional, ultimately enabling firms to "say yes" more often without breaking the leverage pyramid.

Dan Kayne is Founder of the O Shaped Lawyer, and a GC at Network Rail. In this episode of the podcast, he talks with Louise Anderson about how and why he wants to make the legal industry more human-centric.

Discover how AI is transforming legal teams in 2026. This playbook explores engineering value, safety, and talent in the age of automated law, addressing challenges from ethics and junior training to ROI and recruitment with innovative solutions.

Discover what the future holds for General Counsel in our latest Flex Legal report. Based on insights from 180+ legal professionals, this free report explores the essential skills GCs need, from AI literacy to strategic leadership, to thrive in a fast-changing legal landscape.

We were introduced to RSG Consulting in 2017 when they were seeking paralegals to help them writing for the FT Innovative Lawyer Awards. Since then, we've provided them with a dozen talented paralegals, and they're immensely happy with us. Read more about this relationship here!

Struggling with 'do more with less'? Discover how Agile GCs are engineering CFO-trusted savings by plugging budget leaks and transforming fixed costs into flexible capacity with Flex Legal's practical playbook.

Discover what the future holds for General Counsel in our latest Flex Legal report. Based on insights from 180+ legal professionals, this free report explores the essential skills GCs need, from AI literacy to strategic leadership, to thrive in a fast-changing legal landscape.

We were pleased to welcome an excellent panel of speakers to join last week’s GC call in collaboration with LexisNexis and Crafty Counsel, including Dinesh Jadav, Director of Legal Operations at Royal Mail; Manu Kanwar, Co-founder of LexSolutions; and Madeleine Graham, Head of Product Design at LexisNexis. The discussion continued to build on the theme of legal innovation within the in-house community, with the panel sharing excellent insights from their own experiences.