Flexible capacity shaped around your team
Legal workloads rarely increase in a predictable way. A transaction, major project, contracting surge or unexpected departure can quickly leave a capable in-house team without enough time or the right expertise.
Clearlake provides flexible access to a managed team of experienced lawyers. We can add targeted capacity, take responsibility for defined workstreams or provide broader support while you rebuild or reshape your internal team.
You choose the monthly commitment and use the support when it is needed. Clearlake coordinates the people, work and technology through one accountable relationship, allowing your team to remain focused on the areas where it adds most value.
Excellent in-house lawyers in a managed team
Clearlake works alongside existing in-house legal teams, adding capacity and expertise without adding unnecessary management burden. Our service can expand, contract or change shape as your workload evolves.
Capacity when pressure builds
Bring in additional support for a surge in contracts, a major transaction, a new project or an unexpected gap in the team. You can use your agreed hours whenever they are needed during the month, without committing to several fixed days every week.
A team not a dependency
Clearlake can provide lawyers at different levels of seniority rather than placing the entire workload with one individual. This gives your team broader capability, better continuity and less exposure if a particular lawyer becomes unavailable.
Defined workstreams, properly managed
Clearlake can take responsibility for a particular category of work, business unit, project or jurisdiction. We agree how work enters the service, who handles it, when matters escalate and how progress is reported, giving your team clear ownership without creating another layer to supervise.
The right level of support
Routine work should not consume senior legal budgets. Your Clearlake team can combine lawyers at different levels of experience and price, with senior judgement available when the matter requires it. Work is allocated according to complexity, urgency and risk.
Specialist expertise when needed
Access specialist lawyers and selected panel firms without sourcing and managing another provider for every unfamiliar issue. Clearlake can coordinate the wider support, maintain visibility and help ensure that specialist input fits the broader commercial and legal context.
Predictable budget, flexible use
Your service is based on an agreed monthly commitment, giving you a clear and defensible budget. Within that commitment, the available capacity can be used across different matters and lawyers as priorities change.
Complete visibility of our work
Clearlake One provides a shared view of matters, contracts, responsibilities and progress. Your team can track the work being handled by Clearlake, access organised information and reduce dependence on disconnected spreadsheets, inboxes and status requests.
Fast integration with your team
Our lawyers bring substantial in-house experience and understand how legal teams operate within commercial organisations. We work with your existing processes, stakeholders and advisers and can use Clearlake’s own infrastructure where that gives you a better result.
Support that changes with you
Use Clearlake to cover a temporary gap, manage a continuing workstream or add longer-term capacity without creating permanent headcount. As your internal team, workload or priorities change, the Clearlake service can change with them.
More flexible than another interim hire
An interim lawyer can provide valuable capacity, but still only gives you one person with one level of experience, one range of expertise and a largely fixed working pattern.
Clearlake gives you access to a managed team. You can combine different levels of seniority, draw on specialists when required and use your monthly capacity at the points when work actually arises. You retain strategic control. Clearlake takes responsibility for coordinating the support.
Give your team the capacity to focus
Clearlake can absorb a defined workstream, provide cover during a temporary gap or become a continuing extension of your in-house legal function.
You gain flexible capacity, broader expertise and clear visibility without another lengthy recruitment exercise or a rigid resourcing commitment. We will shape the team, service and technology around the pressure your legal function needs to solve.
