The Maturity Model (Replay)

If your outside counsel program feels more like a collection of workarounds than a coherent strategy, you're not alone. According to PERSUIT's data across 80+ legal departments, 74% are still in the earliest stages of outside counsel management maturity — establishing basic processes or still operating reactively.

The gap between where most legal departments are and where they could be is significant. And the consequences are real: budget surprises with no paper trail, sourcing decisions that can't withstand scrutiny, and firms relationships that feel strategic but lack any actual structure.

PERSUIT Director of Legal Advisory Maui Guevaro recently joined the Buying Legal Council to introduce a framework that gives legal operations leaders something they've long been missing: a common language and diagnostic tool for evaluating — and evolving — their outside counsel programs.

A few things from the session that stuck:

• The strongest pillar across industries? Financial management. The weakest? Culture and people — by a wide margin.
• Having great financial outcomes doesn't mean you understand why they're good.
• The organizations pushing the boundaries all share one trait.

Watch the full replay to find out more.