Legal Services Delivery Model Option Assessment (8 slides)
Governments and their agencies face a number of challenging questions in designing the most effective legal services delivery model government-wide and within each agency. For example, these include:
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Variations in the delivery model by type of legal service (e.g., advisory, litigation, legislative and regulatory drafting)
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The extent to which legal services staff should be co-located or integrated with client agencies (e.g., assigning legal services to specific agency clients)
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Dependence on centres of expertise to deliver legal services government-wide
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The funding arrangements in place for legal services, for example, whether legal services should be funded by client agencies, funded centrally on a cost-recovery basis, or simply funded centrally.
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Reporting relationships of organization legal counsel, paralegals and legal assistants
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The degree of flexibility to move legal counsel between client organizations.
Legal services delivery model options
Examples of service delivery model options for legal services government-wide include:
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Decentralized— Agencies manage, acquire and fund their own legal services. Whole of government legal services are provided centrally. Collaborative government legal networks in place.
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Centralized distributed cost recovery model with optionality— Agencies have the option of using centralized government-wide legal services on a cost recovery basis or acquiring private external legal services.
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Centralized mandatory distributed legal services with cost recovery model—Mandatory centralized government-wide legal services are co-located with, and funded by client agencies on a cost recovery basis.
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Centralized mandatory services are assigned to client agencies—Legal services are provided centrally and are assigned to client agencies. Services to client agencies are funded on a cost-recovery basis; whole-of-government services are funded centrally.
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Centralized—Agencies obtain mandatory legal services from centralized service centres or centres of expertise. Services are funded centrally.
This tool provides a work plan and checklist to help assess delivery model options for the legal services function in government or your government agency. The slides (see preview charts) include:
- A checklist to help assess the current delivery model
- Examples of delivery model options for legal services
- The typical contents of the profiles used to describe the delivery model options
- An assessment approach
- Outline of implementation plan to move to the selected delivery model.
Upon purchase, you will receive an email with a link to download the Delivery Model Option Assessment Tool (8 slides in a PowerPoint editable format) as well as the Delivery Model Option Assessment Guide (12 pages in Word).