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:

• excellent risk free trial period toward a permanent hire. We offer you a credit from your contract placement fees toward any permanent placement that ensues
• to save the time and expense of recruitment advertising, resume review, and screening
• to meet client needs despite head-count limitations
• 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
• to cope with decreased lawyer workforce due to scheduling conflicts, family leaves, vacations, illness, staff turnover, sabbaticals, and secondments
• for document review, especially with regard to large-scale M&A work and litigation.

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 8000 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. 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.  

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.