Legalite
Legalite has been selected as an ABA100® Winner for Business Innovation in The Australian Business Awards 2023. The Australian Business Award for Business Innovation [BIA] recognises organisations that have successfully implemented initiatives that demonstrate leadership and commitment to business innovation.
“What started off as a simple pilot program, Legalite Counsel has evolved into a premium retainer service, offering whole team support, and working with some of Australia’s most-loved brands. Honed over many years from direct client feedback, the wonderfully diverse input from our team, and a commitment to continuous improvement, Legalite Counsel is a truly unique offering in the legal industry. Being recognised an ABA100 Winner for Business Innovation in The Australian Business Awards 2023 is not only an exciting testament to this, but to how we are disrupting the legal industry for the better.”
Legalite is an innovative and ground-breaking new-generation commercial law firm specialising in franchising and property. Legalite was established in 2017 by the Managing Principal, Marianne Marchesi, as the sole practitioner. Six years later, Legalite is a team 10 servicing over 500 clients. The firm aims to help clients thrive through simplified and forward-thinking legal services. Legalite innovates as a standard part of business operations and practice, adopting new and exciting technologies to deliver services to clients in creative ways.
A key innovation is the Legalite Counsel service, which has completely revolutionised how brands access and implement legal advice and services into their business. It has shifted legal advice and the roles of lawyers from being reactionary and narrow in scope into being proactive and strategic legal advisers embedded into client businesses.
Fuelled by Legalite’s ‘service by design methodology, the firm has been able to tailor service design to a wide variety of businesses, from emerging brands to established, large and complex organisations. Legalite can provide ‘whole firm support’ to those who require a complete legal team or design a unique team to complement existing internal legal teams. The service benefits business leaders and in-house legal teams by ensuring they can access the specialist advice they need more cost-effectively and focus on the strategic higher, value tasks that help propel their business success. Legalite integrates into the client’s systems and infrastructure so that the Legalite team truly becomes part of the client’s team and business. More than being a reactive team of lawyers processing transactional legal requests, the Legalite team engages in strategic legal planning with clients to map requirements and tailor a 12-month retainer service suitable to them.
There have been many tangible benefits to clients and Legalite, including saving costs, reducing risks, and increasing profitability. Legalite’s innovative service design, delivery and approach to law is resulting in the boutique firm winning top talent and clients from big law firms.
For information about Legalite, visit legalite.com.au