Benefits of EM LawShare Membership
The strength and depth of our partnership will give Members a range of benefits including:
- Access to a procured framework agreement allowing Members to appoint our partner law firms directly
- Innovative pricing and discounted hourly rates fixed for four years
- Cost certainty and greater savings
- New fixed fee, blended rate and volume discounts
- 5 major and public sector leading law firms
- A range of specialist expertise
- Greater choice
- Collaborative working and information sharing opportunities with other Local Authorities and Public Bodies
- A range of added value services including:-
- A highly user interactive secure website
- Free training courses provided by the partner law firms exclusively for EM LawShare Members with free course notes available via the website
- Bi-annual EM LawShare conference
- Dedicated practice notes
- Free legal help lines
- Emergency out of hours advice lines
Each Member of EM LawShare may directly instruct a partner law firm without the need for its own formal procurement exercise. By not having to run a separate exercise, Members will make direct cost savings, access external legal support very quickly, demonstrate value and build capacity into their own in-house legal teams.