Since you now better understand the business challenges your client company is facing and how the legal issues affect those challenges, you can give valuable and actionable advice. This will require you to focus on ensuring that you provide information that the GC can use with the business units and in C-suite presentations. The GC will not have the time or appetite to repurpose your work for internal colleagues, and so it should be delivered in a ready to use format. Here are some guidelines:

  1. Understand that everyone in the company knows the value of presenting information through slides. Team members don't present to each other via word docs. Instead, as you know, they create slide decks. The CEO expects the GC to present bullets that are instantly comprehensible and memorable, with a voice-over that provides deep insight and compelling color. commentary.  Knowing this, consider how you can collaborate with the GC to help create instantly usual communications.
  2. GCs have to prepare status updates and business case justifications to support decisions or to increase investment because something unexpected occurred. Ask how you can help with these tasks.
  3. Prepare a decision tree within a few slides to demonstrate the varying options, maybe highlighting key risks and opportunities.
  4. Prepare a budget slide with milestones and expectations — essentially key performance indicators, if possible with expected timing and costs for achieving each milestone.
  5. Work with the GC to create industry trend slides that can help educate the business units; for example, what is happening in the industry around litigation prevention, regulatory changes, compliance challenges.
  6. Help the GC create internal training presentations and — development tools for long term educational programming, to support the health of the company.

We will be adding some examples in the weeks to come and will update this article and let you know when they are available. If you would like to contribute to this article, please email [email protected], the Editor of Lean Adviser Legal.