By partnering with Paragon, your organization gains access to a diverse network of top-tier legal talent, ensuring you have the right resources in place to meet business challenges while optimizing both performance and cost-efficiency.
Add immediate flex capacity during busy periods or workload spikes, and move Paragon attorneys between departments to meet ebbs and flows across the team.
Fill in the gaps when employees are on leave, during hiring freezes, or while you search for the right full-time employee. Ensure your workload is covered, and maintain flexibility with resources.
Strengthen your team with additional resources for specific projects, ensuring you have the right expertise and support for successful project completion.
Transition an interim Paragon attorney into a permanent role, allowing you to evaluate their fit before making a long-term commitment or to help you scope a new role and build a business case for headcount.
Embed an attorney with the specific expertise you need for particular projects, initiatives, or day-to-day work that doesn’t require a full-time hire.
We place attorneys in varied practice areas to cover all your legal needs.
Get flexible support for every deal, including full risk assessments and deal negotiation.
Our attorneys draft and negotiate all types of agreements, including purchase agreements, privacy agreements, service contracts, and more.
Get expert legal guidance on data privacy and global protection laws.
Our attorneys build proactive compliance strategies, covering consumer protection laws and regulations across healthcare and employment law.
Get specialized advice on employment benefits, DEI initiatives, workplace investigations, and workplace policies.
Here’s how we’ve helped legal teams like yours solve problems.
Biotech Company
Building a Privacy Program From Scratch
Challenge: The client needed to quickly build a privacy program and stay on top of compliance regulations.
Solution: Paragon placed an attorney who built out the privacy program in six months, updated key policies, and supported GDPR compliance work.
Outcome: The client saved roughly $340,000.
FinTech Leader
Closing the Procurement Gap
Challenge: The client had an overflow of procurement work and not enough time to make a full-time hire.
Solution: Paragon placed a three-attorney team to lead negotiations and handle data privacy work.
Outcome: The client saved hundreds of dollars per hour over a nine-month engagement.
Cybersecurity Startup
Supporting the Workload
Challenge: The client needed someone fast to oversee service agreements and contracts.
Solution: Paragon placed an attorney who stepped in immediately to review contracts and resolve open issues.
Outcome: The client kept work moving while searching for a permanent hire, with more flexibility and far less stress.
successful project completion
of clients returned to Paragon
With Paragon, I can leverage the talent of a former general counsel who can step into a subject matter like privacy, employment or transactional support. They’ve been key to supporting our business in a way that’s allowed me to be nimble. I can utilize their talent for months, reassess my needs and not feel the pressure to make a rushed hire.
SITECORE
In-house legal departments turn to flexible legal staffing for different reasons, but timing is key. Knowing when to bring in additional legal support can save your team time, money, and stress.
Common triggers include:
Employee leaves or departures
Maternity leave, sabbaticals, or sudden resignations often leave critical gaps.
Surges in transactional or regulatory workload
M&A activity, commercial contracting, and compliance document reviews don’t wait.
Specialized legal expertise
Some matters demand niche experience not available internally.
Budgetary constraints
Flexible staffing avoids the overhead of permanent hires or high hourly rates from outside counsel.
By acting early, your legal team stays ahead of business needs while maintaining control over resourcing and spend.
One of the biggest concerns when adding outside legal support is the time it takes to get someone up to speed. With Paragon, clients routinely report that our attorneys begin contributing quickly, often within days.
That’s because we focus on:
Experience
Our professionals are seasoned counsel and former attorneys with strong business judgment.
Preparation
Each engagement includes clear expectations, onboarding support, and alignment on goals.
Adaptability
Paragon selects attorneys for their ability to work independently while integrating smoothly into your systems and team culture.
We recruit the best, and it shows. Get to know some of our highly qualified legal professionals:
Anu S.
Anu brings 20+ years of commercial and transactional experience across biotech and life sciences, media and entertainment, and tech. She recently spent a year at a climate tech company handling revenue-generating agreements with enterprise customers, with a focus on transactions, negotiation, and product counseling.
Jim V.
With 20+ years in commercial, corporate, and M&A work, Jim recently led an RFP for a GenAI-powered contract lifecycle management tool and built a contract center of excellence from the ground up.
Christy B.
Christy has focused on privacy for 20+ years across biotech, financial services, energy, and tech. She’s CIPM, CIPP/E, and CIPP/US certified, and recently spent six months building and managing a privacy compliance program for a satellite imagery company, from third-party risk management to data processing agreements and incident response.
Abigail P.
Abigail brings 20+ years across commercial transactions, IP, privacy, and regulatory work in tech, media, and entertainment, and the non-profit sector. She specializes in internet law and policy with a global focus, covering content regulation, copyright and trademark, open licensing, and compliance.
Shailendra M.
Shailendra has 20+ years across commercial transactions and IP, with a background in patent litigation and IP due diligence. He recently spent two years embedded with a New York health tech startup, handling commercial agreements across every business unit.
Mark H.
Mark covers a broad range: commercial transactions, corporate and securities, M&A, employment, IP, and litigation, with 20+ years across business services, consumer packaged goods, media, and tech. He’s CIPP-US certified and handles contract drafting and negotiation, corporate governance, public company securities filings, and board management.
While many legal departments use flexible legal staffing to address urgent needs, the most forward-thinking teams treat it as a long-term strategy. Having a trusted Alternative Legal Service Provider (ALSP) like Paragon on deck allows in-house leaders to anticipate demand and allocate resources with confidence.
Here’s how legal teams incorporate flexible talent into strategic planning:
Forecasting resource needs
General counsel can align talent with expected product launches, regulatory deadlines, or deal cycles.
Developing internal capabilities
Flexible staffing fills gaps while permanent team members build expertise or transition into new roles.
Improving budget predictability
Compared to unpredictable outside counsel billing, flexible engagements offer more clarity and control over legal expenses.
Integrating flexible talent into annual planning and budget cycles helps legal departments stay lean, agile, and aligned with business goals.
Unlike traditional staffing firms that focus on volume and speed, Paragon prioritizes quality, cultural fit, and long-term success, even for short-term engagements.
Here’s what makes our model different:
Selective recruiting
We rigorously vet attorneys for legal skill, business acumen, and adaptability to in-house environments.
Curated matching
Our intake process goes beyond job descriptions to understand your team’s working style and values.
End-to-end support
From onboarding through the full engagement, our client and attorney development teams stay involved.
Legal-only focus
We specialize exclusively in legal talent, no administrative or generalist placements.
We deliver more than resumes. We provide trusted professionals who hit the ground running.
At Paragon, providing flexible, on-demand legal talent is our core focus. With extensive experience in both law and the legal talent industry, our team understands the unique needs and challenges faced by legal departments. We’re dedicated to delivering agile, high-quality counsel solutions that empower your team to achieve its goals with confidence.
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What is flexible legal staffing?
Flexible legal staffing is on-demand support from specialized attorneys, brought in when you’re facing an overflow of work or going through a transition period where hiring full-time isn’t the right move yet.
How is flexible legal talent different from a law firm?
We integrate directly with your existing legal department. You’re not outsourcing work to a third party that isn’t deeply enmeshed in your team, so you get better results and more flexibility with what we can handle day to day.
What are alternative legal service providers (ALSPs), and when should my business consider using them?
Alternative legal service providers (ALSPs) offer cost-effective, scalable solutions for in-house legal teams. Paragon is a leading ALSP that helps legal departments manage overflow work, short-term staffing needs, or provide project-based support without the costs associated with big law firms or full-time hires.
Use an ALSP when you need:
Ready to experience a flexible legal staffing solution tailored to your needs? Contact us today to connect with proven legal talent.
How can Paragon Legal help my department’s shifting workload and evolving business needs?
As business needs evolve, so do your legal requirements. Workloads shift, roles adapt, and specialized legal support may be needed, often at a moment’s notice. Paragon provides the flexible legal talent your department needs to remain agile, delivering highly skilled professionals precisely when you need them.
Our on-demand model offers a strategic alternative that’s:
Once I identify the need, what does the process look like? What is required of me?
It starts with a conversation between you and the Paragon client team. We’ll do a thorough intake to understand your legal needs and what you’re looking for in a candidate. Then, our recruiting team will begin engaging our talent pool of experienced legal professionals.
You’ll receive a curated list of resumes, and then we’ll schedule interviews with the candidates you’re most interested in. Once you make a selection, we’ll support onboarding so your attorney can start contributing right away.
What can I expect when a Paragon attorney is working with us?
Your Paragon attorney will quickly integrate into your in-house team, adapting to your internal systems and workflows. We provide guidance to both parties on success factors and engagement expectations. Your legal department can train the attorney on your processes, risk tolerance, and tools.
In addition to your attorney, you’ll have a dedicated Project Success team supporting your engagement, which includes a client development associate who will be your main point of contact and an attorney development associate supporting your Paragon attorney with feedback and issue resolution.
How quickly can Paragon place an attorney with my team?
Our placement process moves fast, often within days. After your initial consultation, we begin matching your needs with our network of experienced attorneys. In many cases, we present qualified candidates within 48–72 hours. Once you’ve selected someone, we handle onboarding to ensure they’re integrated and contributing quickly. Our goal is to minimize disruption and maximize speed without sacrificing quality or fit.
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