You may just randomly pick a horse out of the hat in a Melbourne Cup sweepstake, you may pick a horse having studied the form guide meticulously or you may pick any grey horse for the win and wear a hat or fascinator to the office on Melbourne Cup day*.
Whether the Melbourne Cup is a race that ‘Stops the Nation’ for you or not, Extra Law invites you to consider the racing adage ‘horses for courses’ – the practice of picking the best response for a situation, or the best means to achieve a specific end.
When picking how to solve your legal resourcing issues, ‘horses for courses’ is a useful form guide. If you have a long term resourcing track, your own employee is best, while engaging a traditional law firm is great for a legal ‘sprint’ (intense work lasting only a couple of weeks). But Extra Law is a sure bet for that middle distance when you need temporary lawyers in your team (to cover absences, project or workload peaks, and long recruitment processes while you’re trying to find the best permanent employee). Engaging Extra Law:
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- saves you money: an international survey** reports that 43% of those engaging gig economy workers experience at least a 20% labour cost savings. With Extra Law you save in the following ways:
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- Extra Law has a business model specifically designed for the gig economy – low overheads mean low hourly rates for you;
- Extra Law provides discounts on its hourly rates for longer engagements (up to 12 months);
- You can easily bring a fixed term engagement with Extra Law to an early end (notice conditions apply) if circumstances change or you miscalculated the period of the engagement at the start;
- Extra Law carries the cost of its employee’s annual and sick leave etc and CPD requirements and there are no additional recruitment costs for you.
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- saves you hassle: with Extra Law you get temporary team members who:
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- are only looking to do their best at the job you engage them for. They don’t want to sell you other, more costly, legal services later or convince you to employ them once the gig is over (crucial when covering parental leave absences);
- are ready for the job and adaptable to different working environments. They have been pre-inducted by Extra Law to ensure that they know about common government or other organisation needs;
- are chosen for engagements because of their usefulness to you: not because they can be spared from, or not needed for, what would otherwise be their ‘normal’ day job.
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- saves you time:
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- you don’t need to wait to go through recruitment processes to get the urgent temporary help you need;
- Extra Law has template contracts for services for engagements, and can work with you on any paperwork and administrative needs to get the engagement started and processing smoothly.
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When it’s equestrian of temporary in-house legal resourcing, Extra Law should be your mane choice!***
* Valerie’s tried and true method…
** The 2017 Gig Econ Manager Research was conducted by Inavero on behalf of Kelly Services.
*** Extra Law unreservedly apologises for the use of horse puns in this email – just say neigh…