Legal Consulting

In many organisations, situations arise where legal issues need to be analysed, but where the starting point is not always entirely clear. This may concern an agreement, a regulatory matter or a new business process. In such situations, a legal consultant can help by structuring the issue and analysing what actually needs to be addressed from a legal perspective.

The starting point is often that a situation needs to be broken down into specific questions before it can be analysed legally. Once these questions have been identified, it also becomes possible to develop a clear answer or solution.

When legal advice for companies needs structure

Many legal issues in organisations arise in situations where neither the way forward nor the objective is entirely clear. A new collaboration is to be established, an agreement needs to be analysed, or the business needs to respond to a regulatory framework. In such situations, it may be unclear which legal issues the company actually needs to address.

The work of a legal consultant therefore often involves analysing the situation and structuring it into specific legal questions that can be assessed. This may include:

• identifying the legal aspects that make up a situation,
• structuring a complex issue into analysable parts,
• clarifying which legal frameworks are relevant, or
• developing a legal answer or a possible solution.

When the issue is clearly defined, it can also be analysed effectively. This helps keep costs under control while preserving the value of the advice.

Legal advice for companies focused on what must be solved

By defining what needs to be resolved, a legal consultant often works from an early stage with a clearly defined issue or situation. The focus is on analysing and resolving the legal problem at hand.

In practice, this means starting from the specific situation in the business and then structuring the legal questions that need to be answered. The work often involves taking an unclear or complex situation and making it legally analysable.

Once the analysis has been completed, the organisation can also obtain a clearer basis for how the matter can be handled in practice.

Legal consultants in practice

A legal consultant therefore often works by analysing a situation, structuring the legal questions that need to be answered and preparing a legal assessment of the matter in question.

At Morling Consulting, our legal consultants ensure that the need is clearly defined, so that the work carried out is relevant and delivers value. The work includes matters relating to contract law, data protection and GDPR, anti-money laundering regulation (AML) and financial regulation. By structuring legal issues and analysing them in context, organisations can obtain a clearer basis for how legal matters can be handled within the business.