
Client:
Financial institution
Their issues:
- Our client did high-end transactions and was not the cheapest on the market. Therefore, service was key to them.
- Transactional legal fees were passed through to customers.
- Customers were often dissatisfied with legal costs.
- A switch to a low-cost legal services provider was problematic. They needed a “vetting stamp” from a large firm due to the transaction value.
How Simplex Legal helped:
- Offered to perform a sampling of ‘problem’ legal invoices.
- Identified the main tasks in the process and who would be the most cost effective to do them.
- Restructured the process so that external firm supervised the overall transaction while subcontracting discrete tasks to low cost providers.
What Simplex Legal achieved for this client:
- Leveraged total legal spent paid by clients.
- Made a deal with 2 firms who are now focussed on high value-added tasks and overall supervision.
- Project legal costs down by 15% – in this case, paid by customers.
- Solved a customer service issue, but also created the opportunity to shine and show value.