Consulting Services
How do you know if you’re paying too much for legal research services?
Are your annual legal research cost increases out of control?
What is your legal research rep not telling you?
Average Customer Savings is 56%
If you are the managing partner or an attorney of a law firm, your time is spent counseling clients and managing those relationships. You’re also doing legal research to help prepare your case or brief for court proceedings.
As a law librarian, you’re working full time doing research and analyzing and evaluating the quality, accuracy and validity of sources. You may also be teaching and training as well as writing and procuring library materials. You manage the institutional knowledge and you make sure that the right information gets to the right people at the right time. Let’s face it, you’re pretty busy.
Your time is valuable and you have to wear many hats. So on top of your daily duties, you have to monitor and analyze your firm’s contracts, bills, and historical usage data for misalignment, redundancy, and waste. But you still need to control legal research costs.
The High Cost of Legal Research
Law firms are frequently frustrated with excessive legal research costs due to escalating Westlaw or Lexis contract fees. Contract renewals can result in unexpected high costs. Plus, with increased pressure on cost recovery, these expenses impact the bottom line. Do you ever wonder if all those expensive books in your law library are being used?
What We Do for You
Legal Counsel Consulting (LCC) addresses these challenges and more by providing expert advice, analysis and negotiation for legal research services. LCC does the analysis so that you know what databases your attorneys need and then negotiates your renewal at the lowest rate possible.
Take Control of Your Legal Information Costs!
LCC ensures that your attorneys have the research tools they need at a lower, predictable cost.
Download Our Complimentary Guide
This free guide, 21 Questions You Must Answer Before Renewing Your Next Legal Research Service Contract will will help you prepare for contract renewal so you get the resources your firm needs at the right price. It contains questions to ask yourself, your sales representative, and the attorneys and staff at your firm. The answers will have a tremendous impact on the results you obtain.
- We review your current legal research and publication packages,
- Identify existing research database usage,
- Audit your print library subscriptions,
- Recommend your best options, and
- Negotiate on your behalf with Legal Research Providers and other essential vendors
How Your Firm Benefits
When we have completed our assessment, we will provide you with a comprehensive plan with rock solid recommendations and procedures that will:
- Help you determine which Legal Research Provider(s) best suits your firm’s needs
- Provide you with an “apples to apples” comparison of the major research provider’s products and services
- Help you determine when and when NOT to extend your contract
- Help you identify the actual cost of a given source
- Eliminate costly content redundancies and unnecessary resources
- Eliminate expensive publications that are not being utilized
- Help you take control of high ancillary fees
- Help determine which content packages your firm actually needs
- Help you manage the Legal Research Provider’s year-over-year cost increases
- Save valuable time evaluating and negotiating with Legal Research Providers
- Get the lowest rates possible on your legal research package
- Give you full transparency of the Legal Research Provider’s contract
Customer Testimonials
Are you spending too much on legal research and need to cut back?
- Make sure the attorneys have all the tools to do their research without overpaying.
- We help take the pressure off of dealing with numerous vendors.
- You need to know where to start when negotiating the price.
- We’ll show you, in detail, all databases that your attorneys use.
Get Started Today!
Contact Legal Counsel Consulting for a complimentary consultation.