Robert Half Legal professionals offer a versatile approach to achieving maximum return on your investment. Below are a few examples of the wide range of services we provide to our clients. Please call 1.800.870.8367 to reach the Robert Half Legal office nearest you and to learn more about our services.

• Large-scale Document Review: Completed Ahead of Deadline, Under Budget
• Lease Abstraction: Helped Save Client Thousands of Dollars
• Project Attorney: Reducing Outside Counsel Cost
• Litigation Document Review in Robert Half Legal Project Space

Large-scale Document Review: Completed Ahead of Deadline, Under Budget

Client Profile
Large international law firm

Business Situation
This New York City-based law firm client had a large, time-sensitive project that required Mandarin-speaking legal professionals for one of its own clients. The challenge was locating and hiring in a three-day window the professionals who could help complete all the work involved in translating documents from Mandarin into English. Unfortunately, the client was completely inundated with other activities and didn't have time to find, interview and hire candidates and then manage the team once it was assembled. The client also had to follow the chain of custody, ensuring they could certify that the information translated had not been altered in any way prior to its subsequent admission into evidence.

Project Scope
The team needed to translate more than 300,000 documents and analyze data in a telecommunications case for the law firm's corporate clients. Time was of the essence.

Team Profile
By working with a blended team of Robert Half Legal and Protiviti professionals, the client gained immediate access to highly skilled legal professionals with foreign language skills and a world-class data forensic team. In a 72-hour period, Robert Half Legal placed 22 Mandarin-speaking licensed attorneys and paralegals with two or more years of experience on the assignment, as well as a document review space, computers and a secure information technology (IT) infrastructure. Protiviti provided data forensic professionals and litigation consultants to ensure that the chain of custody was followed during the project. The team worked in New York, which was an added advantage, because the law firm could directly monitor workflow and easily track progress. In less than five weeks, the team translated more than 300,000 documents and analyzed data for this case.

Business Benefits
If the client had been required to find and hire the necessary Mandarin-speaking legal professionals themselves, they wouldn't have met their project deadline. Since Robert Half Legal already had access to candidates with these specific skills in its vast database, we were able to quickly assemble the team. These legal professionals, combined with Protiviti's globally recognized expertise in business forensics, enabled the client to complete the project on deadline and under budget.

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Lease Abstraction: Helped Save Client Thousands of Dollars

Client Profile
Large international retail corporation

Business Situation
The client was conducting a lease abstraction project to allow all of their leases to be accessed electronically. The project involved two seemingly separate needs: They needed to quickly assemble a team of paralegals and legal support professionals to work on-site, and who were skilled enough to help complete the project in a timely manner, yet with a particular emphasis on data accuracy. In addition, the client required a database to operate as an interim "holding tank" for the information extracted until they were able to implement a permanent data storage solution.

Project Scope
The project involved extracting, analyzing, capturing and verifying data related to more than 3,500 operating store leases and placing the information in a custom-built interim database.

Team Profile
A team was formed of paralegals and legal support professionals with three or more years of lease abstraction experience from Robert Half Legal, and data forensic professionals from Protiviti. Because of our specialized legal recruiting process, Robert Half Legal was able to identify candidates specific to the client's requested needs, who were immediately available and able to hit the ground running. Meanwhile, Protiviti built and managed the requested interim database storage application using its unique expertise.

In a four-and-a-half-month period, our legal support professionals were able to review more than 3,000 leases, both abstracting and verifying data. During the project, the team helped identify inaccuracies in the current database after they reviewed the hard lease. Protiviti professionals created a web-based, front-end application to capture the abstraction data, providing the necessary data entry tools based on fields identified by the client.

Business Benefits
With our integrated approach to both staffing and database challenges, we offered and delivered a solution the client had not considered. The client determined that by keeping the matter in-house and working with a single vendor that could supply both staffing and information technology (IT) solutions in less than 48 hours, they were able to save thousands of dollars.

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Project Attorney: Reducing Outside Counsel Cost

Client Profile
The corporate legal department for a large municipality

Business Situation
Our client had been under a hiring freeze for the past year. They were trying to survive with one person supporting a team of five attorneys. They very much needed a paralegal to assist with research, trial preparation and discovery for their massive caseload. They were not allowed to hire permanent employees, nor could they afford to shift this workload to outside counsel.

Candidate Profile
We sent the client two project attorneys. Our first candidate was a newly relocated attorney licensed in another state, ready to work as a paralegal. The second candidate had recently worked with another client of ours and was familiar with the type of work.

Project Scope
Our project attorneys helped to conduct research, drafted pleadings, assisted with discovery and even helped coordinate some administrative functions. They stayed on for four to six months.

Cost Savings
We estimate that by bringing on these two highly skilled professionals, the client was able to save over $50,000 by reducing their outside counsel expenses and not adding to their permanent headcount.

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Litigation Document Review in Robert Half Legal Project Space

Client Profile
An international business and litigation law firm

Business Situation
Robert Half Legal's client needed to support their Houston-based client to perform an online document review. Our client did not have an office in Texas, and was therefore opposed to flying partners, associates and staff to Houston for the four-month project where they would incur numerous expenses for travel, temporary office space and associated charges.

Candidate Profile
We not only provided the firm with licensed and experienced review attorneys, but we also arranged for Class A office space and laptops with wireless Internet access at no additional cost to the firm and their client.

Project Scope
Four-month document review in Robert Half Legal's project space

Cost Savings
Robert Half Legal was able to orchestrate all of these services within 48 hours of the initial engagement. This total solution provided an estimated cost savings of over $200,000 to the related parties.

The efficiency with which our contract professionals performed was so impressive that our client brought in another five temporary attorneys for a three-month project in their home office in San Francisco for the same client.

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