• Frequently asked questions

Informed purchasing of legal services is an approach that puts you (the purchaser) in control of the relationship with your law firm. Allygroup works with your internal team to improve your knowledge and skills to be able to achieve greater accountability, quality and cost-certainty from your external law firms.

Allygroup works with you and your external law firms to ensure that unnecessary work is eliminated and the work is appropriately resourced. Project management by Allygroup regularly delivers cost savings of up to 25% on external legal fees.

Legal management consulting services are provided by Allygroup to reduce your legal spend and help you gain control of the relationship with your law firms. Our legal management consulting services include macro reviews of your legal services procurement and management, project managing large legal cases, procuring and managing panel firms, and providing contract lawyers for overflow work.

Yes, Allygroup can train your team so you can realise greater value and control over your internal governance and external legal work. Examples include training your team in how to become informed purchasers of legal services, how to project manage large commercial and litigation disputes and transactions, work with panel firms, and control legal costs. We also offer training in:

• workplace investigations
• governance
• probity

Our major clients are governments and public companies. One of Allygroup’s unique points of difference is that, unlike other legal management consultancies, we do not act for law firms. This means that we have no conflicts of interest when it comes to helping you reduce your legal spend. Due to confidentiality we cannot identify most of our projects; however we would be happy to refer you to client referees upon request.

At Allygroup we have implemented the latest innovations in alternative billing to provide your organisation with cost-effective options, whilst still delivering respected outcomes. These arrangements include pricing caps, fixed fees or a hybrid of these. When compared with out-dated hourly billing, these alternatives represent a more realistic approach to quantifying value. Allygroup is committed to ensuring that your organisation will remain free from the tyranny of escalating legal costs.