Insights & blogs
Trends and Challenges in the Legal Landscape (End of 2024 - Beginning of 2025)
Key Trends and Challenges for the Legal Sector in 2025: Technology, ESG, and Cybersecurity
Advocatie column - the future of the legal profession
It’s a recurring discussion: shouldn’t we, in the Netherlands, allow external investors to participate in law firms, just like in the UK?
This question is not only being debated here but also in Germany. Over there, a law firm has come into conflict with the local bar association over precisely this issue. The dispute has escalated to the point where preliminary questions have been submitted to the European Court of Justice. Just before the summer, the AG issued his opinion. For Mr. Magazine, this was reason enough to survey the market to see what people in the Dutch legal profession think about this issue.
Strategic goals vs. daily practice
The blog discusses the conflicting interests between general counsel and managers when hiring freelance legal professionals. General counsel focuses on flexibility and cost savings, while managers often prioritize team size and control. These opposing interests make balancing flexibility and internal team building complex. Managers can benefit from freelancers by outsourcing non-core tasks, improving team happiness.
Update on the Dutch Freelance Worker Dossier following the AG's Opinion in FNV-Uber.
There have been many developments in the freelance worker (zzp) dossier, and they are happening quickly. We would like to provide an update, but to fully understand where we are now, let's start at the beginning.
Capacity Management in Law Firms: Boosting Profits Per Partner
In the fast-paced world of legal services, managing capacity is key to making a law firm profitable and successful. Knowing how to balance your resources with the demand for legal services is crucial for growth and financial health. Effective capacity management for law firms involves a strategic approach to resource allocation and maximizing billable hours, leading to boosting profits per partner (PPP). Let’s dive into how capacity management works and why it’s important for boosting PPP.
When it is Quiet at the 'zuidas’
At LawyerlinQ we are experts when it comes to the Dutch legal sector.
PepsiCo partners with LawyerlinQ to launch its legal flex pool
PepsiCo's European legal department chooses LawyerlinQ as its partner to create its lawyer flex pool. LawyerlinQ uses its self-developed technology for distributing legal work. This SaaS (Software as a Service) solution helps organizations distribute legal work.
Challenges and tips when Engaging Law firms abroad
Engaging in international business requires navigating complex legal landscapes and cross-border transactions. This can be daunting due to language barriers, time differences, and cultural nuances. Learn from our extensive experience how to compare law firms effectively on multiple criteria such as expertise, experience, and cost to ensure a successful legal partnership.
How to Optimize the Distribution of Legal Work?
At LawyerlinQ, we engage with the largest legal departments in the Netherlands regarding their legal challenges. In this article, we discuss how to optimally distribute legal tasks. There are various ways to distribute legal work within your own team and beyond.
Benchmark onderzoek - advocatentarieven
LawyerlinQ helpt juridische organisaties bij het optimaal inkopen en inhuren van advocaten en freelance juristen.
Als onderdeel van onze dienstverlening aan onze corporate klanten voeren wij jaarlijks onderzoek uit naar de tarieven van advocatenkantoren in Nederland door middel van enquêtes en interviews.
How do General Counsel choose law firms?
As a part of my role at LawyerlinQ, I’ve had discussions with over a hundred General Counsel (GCs) regarding the procurement of attorney services. In this blog series, I’ll share my learnings from these conversations. This third blog I will address how choosing a law firm usually goes for companies. It turns out that little to nothing has changed in that over the past few decades.
Vattenfall partners with LawyerlinQ to launch its legal flex pool (ENG/NL)
Energy supplier Vattenfall is starting to set up its own flexpool of lawyers.
Why Are External Legal Costs Not a KPI?
As a part of my role at LawyerlinQ, I’ve had discussions with over a hundred General Counsel (GCs) regarding the procurement of attorney services. In this blog series, I’ll share my learnings from these conversations. In this second blog, I will address the question of why reducing external legal costs is not a KPI in Dutch legal departments.
Moving beyond the billable hour trap
In-house teams are adopting a new process that emphasizes the true value of legal services. By segmenting legal matters into milestones and deliverables, and adding a reversed auction process, they are able to select firms based on insight into the value each firm can bring to the table, rather than on the price of billable hours.
Fixed PRICING
From my role at LawyerlinQ, I've had discussions with nearly a hundred GCs over the past few months regarding the procurement of attorney services. In this blog series, I'll share my insights, or "learnings" as we call them internally. This first one focuses on 'fixed pricing'. While everyone claims that fixed pricing is challenging, it turns out to be easier than you think. In this blog I’ll share 3 tips:
Podcast interview with LawyerlinQ founder Marijn Rooijmans
LawyerlinQ founder Marijn Rooijmans was a guest in the dutch podcast series ‘De Bedrijfsjurist’ (ENG: the legal counsel). The podcast itself is in Dutch and features General Counsel and legal ops, professionals. Marijn talks about entrepreneurship in the legal sector. legal tech, and explains the how and why of the LawyerlinQ platform for sourcing external outside counsel.