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Lexcel Consultancy Services for Law Firms

Our team of Lexcel consultants have been providing expert Lexcel support since 1998. Trusted by over 500 UK law firms.

Enhance Your Legal Practice’s Risk & Compliance Management with the Lexcel Quality Standard

Lexcel is a quality standard which was introduced by The Law Society in 1998 to help law firms improve their management processes, manage risk, increase profitability, and enhance services to clients.

Lexcel certification is awarded to firms that meet certain standards in key areas such as:

Risk management
Information management
File and case management
Financial management
People management
Client care, and
Structure and strategy

All practices are eligible regardless of size or sector, and accreditation lasts for three year cycles.

Our team of consultants are Lexcel experts. We have worked with the standard since it was first introduced, and during the two decades that followed we have supported hundreds of Lexcel law firms.

If you are interested in learning more about Lexcel, securing your first accreditation, need help with re-accreditation, or need assistance with other aspects, please don’t hesitate to contact us for a free initial, no obligation consultation.

What Are The Benefits of Lexcel?

Lexcel provides legal practices firms in the legal sector with opportunities for a number of significant benefits including:

Improved risk management
Closer compliance with regulations
Preparing for mergers and acquisitions
Enhanced platforms for change management
Attracting new clients
Improved client satisfaction and increased customer retention
Improved performance and increased profitability

Areas Covered in our Lexcel Consulting

Many of our clients already have Lexcel accreditation and ask us to help them to keep on top of compliance with its requirements, or when changes take place to the Lexcel standard itself.

We also have client firms that have not been assessed against the Lexcel standard, but would like to do so with a view to working towards a formal Lexcel assessment or otherwise to align their controls with Lexcel requirements as a means of best practice.

We apply services according to the client's needs. These might include some or all of the following;

Documented Gap Analysis of your firm’s present situation versus the latest version of the Lexcel standard. (See further details immediately below).
Reviews and authoring of the ‘office manual’ of policies, controls and procedures.
Preparation of key plans and registers, including; a Risk Register, register of personal data processed by the firm, the Compliance Plan, Business Continuity Plan.
Support with authoring forms, letters and Terms of Business.
Support with selecting case management systems.
Conducting file reviews to measure compliance with Lexcel and best practice.
Conducting mock assessments.
Providing support during and after formal assessments, to address any queries raised by assessors.

Lexcel Gap Analysis:

When firms are considering their next steps versus the Lexcel standard, it is very useful to first understand where they are at present. This ensures that the firm is always in the driving seat, with precise visibility of its situation.

To that end, we conduct a fixed cost gap analysis on the plans, policies, procedures, controls, registers, logs, letters and forms, versus the requirements of the Lexcel standard and best practice.

We set out our findings in a written, plain language report that describes; the requirement of the Lexcel standard in question, the concern or item that requires attention, and an outline as to what can be done to resolve it.

Our unparalleled experience with Lexcel means that our Gap Analysis reports are without doubt some of the most detailed out there. Even for firms that might have held Lexcel accreditation for several years, our reports do not unusually run to in excess of 30 pages!

Pricing

We strive to provide you with unparalleled value through services that are bespoke to your practice.

Our pricing is competitive and transparent. And, it’s tailored according to the scope of the work that that we do for you.

Wherever possible, we conduct work on a fixed fee basis.

Join our free Best Practice Group and save:

Members of our free-to-join Best Practice Group receive a substantial discount on all of our services.

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Thomson Reuters Practical Law has published an article on preparing for Lexcel accreditation, authored by our Operations Director, Neil Partridge

Read the article

Additional Lexcel Services:

In addition to our Lexcel consultancy services, we also provide the following services which are tailored to your specific needs:

	Lexcel Preparatory Audits & GAP Analysis	Learn More
	Lexcel Training	Learn More

Why Choose PDA Legal?

The PDA Legal team:

Is proud to have over 25 years experience in the legal sector.
Has supported over 500 legal organisations.
When Lexcel v6.1 was launched, our Operations Director, Neil Partridge, conducted the formal training for all of the UK Lexcel assessors and provided training to more than 200 legal practices.
Has worked with The Law Society on Lexcel and has authored articles and spoken at national Law Society events on key compliance topics.
All discussions with us are conducted in confidence.
We operate, wherever possible, on a fixed price model and project scheduling. which means your tailored quote will not change, providing you with clear, transparent pricing.
Offers a free, no obligation initial consultation.

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What Our Clients Have to Say…

“Thank you for streamlining our procedures and policies, and for providing such helpful guidance on their implementation. We at last feel up-to-date!”
“We are so grateful that you have simplified what we had considered to be incredibly complex.”
“We have worked with other consultancies before, but yours was far and away the most thorough and worthwhile analysis of this practice. Thank you.”

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