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KPMG Law to aid in-house service delivery
KPMG Law has rolled out a new service that aims to address the changing requirements of in-house lawyers.
Emma Musgrave
KPMG’s new Legal Operations & Transformation Services (LOTS) seeks to help in-house counsel to “re-imagine the future of their legal services delivery model through a process of assessing their current operations, defining the future operating model, identifying technology that will support delivery of legal services to the business and implementation of a transformation plan”.
“Businesses are engaging their internal legal teams earlier to minimise risk and maximise business opportunity. Essentially, in-house legal teams are moving from traditional back office functions to doing business at the front end. This means that in addition to their existing legal and compliance duties, in-house counsel are being challenged to not only support business activity but to make a strategic impact across the organisation,” said Jamie Levy, leader of KPMG’s Legal Operations & Transformation Services.
“Our new service can support in-house legal teams meet this challenge by partnering with them on their transformation journey. We combine former general counsel, legal project managers, business process engineers and applied legal technologists to assess current processes, define the future operating model, demystify ‘legal tech’ offerings and implement technology-assisted approaches to the delivery of in-house legal services.”
Commenting further on the roll out of the new service, Stuart Fuller, head of KPMG Law said: “With compounding headcount, technology and budget pressures, simply tweaking the existing model may not be sufficient to meet this challenge”.
“We can help stream-line the in-house function, freeing up capacity for more value-adding work,” he concluded.
Emma Musgrave
Emma Musgrave (née Ryan) is the managing editor, professional services at Momentum Media.
Emma has worked for Momentum Media since 2015, including five years spent as the editor of the company's legal brand - Lawyers Weekly. Throughout her time at Momentum, she has been responsible for breaking some of the biggest stories in corporate Australia. In addition, she has produced exclusive multimedia and event content related to the company's respective brands and audiences.
Prior to joining Momentum Media, Emma worked in breakfast radio, delivering news to the Central West region of NSW, before taking on a radio journalist role at Southern Cross Austereo, based in Townsville, North Queensland.
She holds a Bachelor of Communications (Journalism) degree from Charles Sturt University.
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