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CCCA_V4No3_Outsourcing-FIN.qxd:CCCA_V1No1_DriversSeat-FIN.qxd 9/2/10 12:56 PM Page 38 Feature “ Our model is to provide companies with ‘bandwidth on demand’ so that businesses only pay for its in-house legal services as it is used. ” applications, tax law, competition law, and litigation. Joe Milstone, Co-founder, Cognition LLP, Toronto Delegatus as their general counsel on a part-time basis. Pascale Pageau founded Delegatus Legal Services five years Last January, ZSA Legal Recruitment, one of Canada’s largest ago, but she did not start offering services to corporate counsel national legal placement firms, rolled out LexLocom inToronto, directly until early in 2006. Her firm continues to subcontract with ambitious plans to provide services nationally. lawyers to both private sector law firms and corporate legal Scott Ewart, the firm’s CEO says that LexLocom can access departments. Currently, she has 15 lawyers on her roster, but she the pool of talent from ZSA’s database of 15,000 professionals of expects to add five more by the end of 2010. which 9,000 are lawyers.“We can provide ‘just-in-time’ lawyers Nadia Jubinville, senior director of legal affairs at Banque to come in and complete a project,”Ewart says.As a 30-year vet- Nationale Groupe Financier, has used Delegatus’s in-house serv- eran of the legal profession with 15 years spent in-house at ice to cover for a sick leave replacement.TheYellow Pages Group, Nortel Networks, Coca-Cola Canada and Allstream (formerly which has a medium size in-house legal team, has subcontracted AT&T Canada), Ewart says he has developed the expertise to a lawyer from Delegatus for two to three days a week for the past identify the right level of lawyer for any assignment. two years.Vantrix, a multimedia company in Montreal has used Ewart says that LexLocom offers three core services. First, they Pascale Pageau Founder and president Delegatus Legal Services Inc. SPYROS BOURBOULIS Montreal 38 CCCA Canadian Corporate Counsel Association FALL 2010