Corporate Support Services
Increasingly many companies outsource legal support to an external law firm to reduce headcount and get comprehensive, high-quality service. Bezrukov & Partners is ready to become a legal department of your company and guarantees competent and timely advice. At Bezrukov & Partners, we offer several options for legal subscription services. To learn more about these options, please contact us, and we will send you all necessary information straight away.
Advantages of Legal Outsourcing
Let’s examine the major benefits of this practice. First, it is designed to save cash. Second, you get access to high-quality service provided by practicing experts who regularly participate in professional development programs and have a broad litigation practice. Look at the table below.
|
In-house lawyer |
Bezrukov & Partners |
---|---|---|
Specialization* |
Narrow |
All areas of law |
Vacation/ sick/ maternity pays |
Yes |
No |
Writing materials and office equipment costs |
Yes |
No |
Individual workplace |
Yes |
No |
Legal information systems (Consultant Plus or GARANT) |
Yes |
No |
Personal Income Tax payments** |
Yes |
No |
Payments to the RF Pension Fund, Social Insurance Fund and Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund** |
Yes |
No |
Prime cost includes the above mentioned payments. |
Yes |
Yes |
* An in-house-lawyer usually has quite narrow specialization and is unable to give competent and timely advice on a broad variety of legal issues.
** Don’t forget that tax withholdings and trust fund taxes amount to nearly half of the salary.
Let’s proceed to the figures. An average salary of a practising lawyer in Barnaul equates to 25,000 rubles. Add 13 per cent (income tax) to this cost, add insurance contributions to the Pension Fund (22%), Social Insurance Fund (2.9%) and Federal (3.1%) and Regional (2%) Compulsory Medical Insurance Funds. They all add to an extra 30 per cent.
Thus, the cost of labour of an in-house lawyer amounts to 35,750 rubles per month (including 25,000 rubles salary).
Moreover,t, an in-house lawyer will need legal information systems (Consultant Plus or GARANT) for his work; installation and regular update of this soft result in extra 7,000 rubles per month (even if you have a light version).
To sum it up, it will cost you 42,750 rubles per month to have an in-house lawyer, given that you exclude the costs for office equipment and individual workplace from the calculation. You also have to consider resources to organize a workplace, to find a competent employee and to assess him.
Compare it with our lawyers’ fees and the scope ofBezrukov & Partners practice, and make the right choice.