Under an APL-Contract Placement, the APL Lawyer works for you, the client, and APL acts as your agent in paying APL Lawyer.

Use APL Lawyers as if they are your own. Because APL Lawyers work on your premises with your facilities, you are supplying part of the overhead yourself and therefore reducing costs. You save a portion of the legal fees paid to outside counsel. You also retain financial and task control.

Under an APL Project Placement, we send you as many APL Lawyers as you need, for as long as you need. Working at your premises, APL Lawyers will focus solely on your project. This service is particularly useful for document review, especially with regard to large-scale litigation matters.

Aims and Objective/Benefits
We can help you achieve cost reductions and productivity (or revenue) gains through supplying you with APL Lawyers on a flexible contract basis:

to reduce excessive reliance on permanent employees or outside file referral;
to deal with increased workload due to work surges, projects, trials, corporate transactions, or new areas of practice; and
to cope with decreased lawyer workforce due to scheduling conflicts, family leaves, vacations, illness, staff turnover, sabbaticals, and secondments.

We aim for maximum flexibility. We can send you an individual or team of lawyers. Part-time arrangements are available and, upon a maximum of two weeks notice, replacement or termination of a lawyer is possible. An extended assignment through APL could provide an excellent risk free trial period toward a Direct Hire.

We save you the time and expense of recruitment advertising, resume review, and screening. As both lawyers and professional recruiters, we can help you avoid costly errors. Above all, the utmost confidentiality is assured to all individuals and organizations dealing with APL.

What We Will Do For You

APL Legal Team: The lawyers that we send to you originate either from our extensive well maintained lawyer database of over 7500 resumes or through print or electronic recruitment advertising on your behalf, on either a named or unnamed basis. For APL-Contract Placements we often use specialized sole practitioners with whom we have developed a relationship over the years. These practitioners offer a rich contribution in terms of background, skills, availability, and work job appreciation.

Procedure: After you return our standard Client Request/Agreement form, APL lawyer/human resources staff will carefully screen candidates by means of one or more of the following methods, as agreed to between us, namely, telephone or personal interviews, checking one to two references and receiving sample writings and/or practice highlights. All the written reports stemming from these methods will be duly forwarded to you.  

The Mechanics

You pay us and we in turn pay the APL Lawyer on your behalf and retain our portion of the fees. We take care of all the candidate administration matters. So he/she is off your books, and will not add to your headcount.

Candidate Incentives

In order to encourage retention and high candidate quality, we pay APL-Contract lawyers single medical/dental benefits free of charge, and deduct CPP and EI as a safety-net for them. They pay their own taxes and so enjoy benefits of independent contractor status as well.

BENEFITS

Don’t let cutbacks delay or eliminate meeting essential law department needs. Use our contract lawyers (a) as an extension of your permanent staff to reduce head count and outside counsel fees, (b) for temporary needs such as work surges and personnel leaves, and (c) as a try out for new needs, areas, or persons. We offer law departments:

Superior Flexibility: An individual or team of lawyers for a day, a month, or forever. Part-time arrangements are available; and replacement or termination of a lawyer is always possible.

Superior Experience: An extensive database and contact and knowledge pool as well as a finely honed team approach. So, beyond the few resumes we receive from our ads, we offer you the benefit of our enormous database, which we mine exhaustively on your behalf. We dig deeper.

Superior Choice: A diverse candidate base to service the diverse staffing solutions we offer clients. We don't just focus on one type of candidate or client.

Superior Screening: Confidential recruitment solutions to help our clients and candidates make informed decisions. We conduct a thorough screening process of all applicants for any legal position and only present candidates who, meet the requirements and specifications of our clients.

Superior Inducements: We offer our hirees free single-coverage medical and dental benefits.

Superior Results: Please contact us for our vast pool of satisfied clients who can confirm to you how we help you cut costs and yet maintain the quality of your client legal services.

FEES
Our hourly rates vary according to the APL Lawyer’s amount of experience. Please call for current rates:
Anita Lerek, 416 927 7159, alerek@advocateplacement.com

CONFIDENTIALITY
At APL, we value our client’s privacy – we never, unless requested, advertise our clients’ names and only reveal them to those candidates that are deemed a good fit. As a result, we ensure that you are not bombarded with unsolicited resumes. In addition, because of our respect for privacy, we never forward an unsolicited resume to you. If you have further questions, our Privacy Policy further outlines our responsibilities and practices.