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When You Might Need Project-Based Support

Project work shows up whenever a defined initiative outpaces the team’s capacity or calls for expertise the department doesn’t keep on staff. It might be M&A due diligence, a contract remediation push, or a data privacy rollout racing a regulatory deadline. Common projects Paragon attorneys can fill in for include:

Mergers, acquisitions, and post-close integration Contract remediation, repapering, or a CLM rollout
Data privacy and security programs A new regulatory compliance program on a deadline
Portfolios, licensing, and product launches Litigation, investigations, and workload surges

Whatever the initiative, Paragon matches it to attorneys who have run that kind of work in-house before, from a compliance program to an intellectual property project or an employment law workstream tied to a reorganization.

How Project Support From Paragon Works

  1. Scope the project with Paragon: the deliverable, the timeline, the expertise, and the seniority it needs.
  2. Paragon assembles the right project lawyers for the work, whether that’s one attorney or a small team.
  3. They embed in your systems and run the workstream, handling the substantive legal work from contract review and legal research to diligence and drafting.
  4. The team scales up or down as the project moves through its phases, so you’re never paying for capacity the current stage doesn’t need.
  5. When the project wraps, they transition the work back to your team and step out, or convert to a permanent seat if the need turns out to be ongoing.

Project-based support isn’t a marketplace that hands you freelance attorneys or contract lawyers to manage, and it isn’t outside project counsel billing by the hour at arm’s length. Instead, Paragon places experienced attorneys who embed with your team and stay accountable for the initiative, so you get the control of in-house legal support with the reach of an outside resource.

What Sets Paragon’s Attorneys Apart

A project is only as strong as the attorneys running it, so Paragon’s attorneys are carefully selected and offer:

9.3 out of 10

average client satisfaction rating, which speaks to the trust we’ve earned over the years.

9.4 out of 10

average satisfaction rating of the attorneys we place.

More than 90%

of the legal professionals we place have in-house experience.

Over 70%

of our client service team members have law degrees.

Scoped to the Project, Scaled to the Work

Project-based support runs on a defined timeline, not an open-ended commitment. You add legal resources for the life of the initiative and release them when it wraps, so a big push doesn’t harden into permanent headcount that outlives the initiative. As the work ebbs and flows, the staffing scales with it.

This is just one path within our flexible legal talent model, but it often overlaps with the others. When the need is steady, everyday capacity rather than a discrete initiative, legal overflow support is the better fit. When a project needs deep niche skills, specialized expertise brings that subject-matter depth. And when a project role proves it should be permanent, temp-to-perm converts the attorney into a hire. Paragon helps you scope out which one your situation calls for.

Scope Your Project With Paragon

Every initiative has its own shape, timeline, and expertise it demands. Talk to Paragon about the project you need to staff, and we’ll build the team to carry it from kickoff to close.

Frequently Asked Questions

Anything with a defined scope and timeline, from M&A due diligence and post-close integration to a contract remediation push, a data privacy rollout, a regulatory compliance program, or an IP or employment project. If it’s a bounded initiative that needs experienced legal professionals, Paragon can staff it.

Because Paragon’s attorneys are experienced in-house practitioners, most can be scoped and embedded within days or weeks, not the months a permanent hire or a new law-firm relationship takes.

You add or release capacity as the project moves through its phases. A diligence sprint might need several attorneys for a few weeks, then taper to one for the long tail, and the staffing flexes to match.

The team transitions the work back to your department and steps out. If a role turns out to be ongoing, the attorney can convert to a permanent hire instead of walking the institutional knowledge out the door.

A law firm handles the matter at arm’s length and bills by the hour; a freelance platform hands you freelance lawyers to vet and manage yourself. Paragon places experienced attorneys who embed in your team and stay accountable for the project, so you direct the work without running a marketplace.

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