YLM serves as experienced outsourced counsel for companies in two ways:

• Support for a general counsel who has more projects than the in-house legal group can effectively handle, but doesn’t have the budget to assign the work to expensive outside counsel or increase the group’s headcount.  Your Legal Manager supports the general counsel either by handling all or parts of legal projects transparently through to completion or managing the outside law firms chosen to handle the work.
• Support for C-level executives who do not have a chief legal officer to manage the company’s legal work, which results in excessive law firm fees and friction in the handling of the company’s legal projects, distracting from the executives’ strategic management role.  Your Legal Manger fills the role of in-house general counsel, assuming responsibility for managing the company’s outside law firms, freeing the executives from that burden.

YLM’s services are based on John A. St. Clair’s experience as a partner of three international law firms, then as general counsel for a technology products company from its  founding, through its IPO and sale following a hostile takeover fight, and then as the senior in-house counsel for a multi-billion dollar technology products manufacturer and distributor.

Your Legal Manager supports in-house legal groups, and assists an executive team that does not have an in-house legal group, by providing trusted, experienced in-house counsel services.