Attorneys on Demand in Australia
Fill Your Legal Needs with a Secondee Lawyer
With the amount of legal work that needs to be completed throughout the year, your headcount can seem like it’s never enough. Whether it it’s as simple as needing to fill a seasonal gap or cover a parental leave, an extra pair of legal hands can make a big difference. A secondee lawyer can provide the legal support you need.
Axiom Global Australia provides high calibre, on-demand legal services in Australia. Axiom is where legal teams go to find legal talent for everything from everyday in-house tasks to complex in-house and outside counsel work.
An experienced secondee lawyer is just a phone call away.
How Axiom Works
Axiom partners with the leading in-house legal teams in Australia. We work to match high calibre legal talent on demand with in-house legal functions that have capacity gaps or need additional legal support.
At Axiom, we maintain a full bench of lawyers with deep experience in over fourteen legal practice areas. Our bench includes lawyers located in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and throughout the rest of the country. We have lawyers with a range of specialty skill sets and experience levels so we will always be able to find the perfect legal match for your needs.
To get started, simply contact us and we’ll partner with you to identify the needs and challenges of your department. Once we understand the scope of your needs, Axiom will help match you with the best available lawyers.
Axiom has more than 20 years of experience working with many clients, vendors, and invoicing platforms to aid onboarding. We partner closely with our clients throughout the lawyer onboarding process and use detailed checklists and methods to ensure our lawyers are effective from day one.
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Featured Case Study
Attorneys on demand in Melbourne
How Using Axiom Global Australia’s Secondee Solution Played a Central Role In Transforming the Legal Function of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)
Life is Good
Picture this…The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) is a government agency that celebrates, explores, and promotes the cultural and creative richness of the moving image in all its forms – film, television, and digital culture.
Big Challenge
But, when the four lawyers from the in-house legal team were trying to improve productivity, they needed a solution that was mindful of their tight budget.
Adding to their challenge, the team lost its General Counsel, creating a sudden catalyst for action. As the existing work was backing up, the HR team struggled to find a suitable replacement and needed an urgent solution.
Help Arrives
So, they turned to Axiom. Based on the current and projected workload, Axiom and ACMI concluded that engaging a secondee was the optimum solution to enhance productivity with minimal impact to the agency’s tight budget.
From a bench of nearly 100 Axiom lawyers, the lawyer selected happened to moonlight as a Hollywood scriptwriter, making an excellent cultural fit for the agency. Within 24 hours, ACMI met with the Axiom lawyer and was immediately impressed with his experience and profile, supporting a compelling business case for funding the secondment.
The Axiom lawyer worked with the in-house legal team to support a diverse group of internal and external stakeholders to continue the review and management of key contracts, including corporate sponsorship agreements, touring agreements, and joint ventures.
Life is Even Better
Now, the three-month engagement was such a success that it extended to one year. The Axiom lawyer became a key adviser to the CEO and has played a central role in transforming ACMI’s legal function. That’s what happens when higher standards are welcome.
(ACMI worked with a former company, recently acquired by Axiom Global Australia)
Frequently Asked Questions
A secondee lawyer is a lawyer who temporarily joins the in-house legal team of an organisation to help with a specific project, provide specialty knowledge or to offer additional capacity. Traditionally those in private practice would become secondee lawyers to gain commercial experience early in their careers; however, legal secondments are now available to lawyers during any stage of their career to gain more flexibility and to broaden their skill sets.
With Axiom Law, the length of engagement is up to you. Your attorney on demand can work with your legal team for as long or as little as you need them to. Some of our clients require a lawyer for just a few days while others may need support for a full year or more.
Axiom lawyers are top-tier trained with a broad mix of in-house commercial experience. Axiom’s secondee lawyers have a deep understanding of the law in their practice areas. We also have lawyers with a more specialist skill set who have also worked in-house. Globally, Axiom has over 3,400 lawyers with F500 experience and over 1,000 lawyers with AmLaw100 experience. Our lawyers have an average PQE of 15 years.
Getting Started
As one of the world’s leading alternative legal service providers, we are here to provide flexible support for your in-house legal team in Australia. We will partner with you to identify the needs and challenges of your department. Once we understand the scope of your needs, we will review our bench of lawyers and propose a solution, which could range from one lawyer focusing on a specific project to a sophisticated, structured team.