In recognition of the fact that the human resource requirements of law firms and other professional service organisations often go beyond permanent recruitment, First Counsel Consulting provides a range of strategic resourcing solutions. During the last few years, we have rapidly become the leading provider of interim management and advisory services to professional service firms.

Whether you have an important executive gap to fill, a vital project to complete, a merger to integrate or a change programme to implement, talk to First Counsel Consulting first. You no longer need to choose between recruitment and consultancy, because we give you access to the pick of the most experienced interim managers – all of them seasoned professional service firm managers – whose aim is simple: to bring you results fast. Covering the full range of disciplines, all of our people are senior business professionals with proven track records of delivery and achievement. More than just managers, they are leaders – leaders of teams, of projects, of campaigns and of change. The duration of the assignments they lead is typically between three and 12 months.

Each of our interim managers has the First Counsel hallmark: they are generously endowed with that rarest of commodities – common sense – and are totally focused on delivery, on results and on sustainable, superior performance. They get the job done, without fuss. They add a lot of value, fast. They give good advice and sometimes difficult, uncompromising advice. But it is always objective advice focused on delivering the right outcome for the business. These are people who have been there.

Progress, performance and service reviews are a regular feature. And providing an effective mentoring service to our interim managers ensures that there is a reassuring level of support and added value for your project.

Above all, when the assignment comes to an end, we don’t just walk away. We facilitate a smooth completion or hand-over and conduct a full project review. Later on, we are keen to ensure that your growth and success has indeed been sustained.

Advisory Services - turning strategy into results

Interim management is one solution to the problem of drift inside professional service firms.

Project consultancy is another. Advice anchored in strategic insight, operational delivery and common sense can also help ensure that visionary intent is translated into action and results.

Project consultancy differs from interim management in a number of ways, but chief among them is the fact that the expertise is provided on a specific project. The input of the consultant, both strategic and practical, also tends to be required on a more arms-length basis and not generally from within the organisation.

Outputs are no less important, however, and all of our consultants are single-minded in their pursuit of results.

Core advisory services

Clients turn to us for advice in four areas critical to success:

• Strategy Review/Execution
• Organisational Alignment
• M&A Planning & Implementation
• Leadership Development

Within this broad context, we provide specialist project managers across the management spectrum.

So, whether you need interim or project consultancy support, or advice of a broader strategic nature do please get in touch.

To say our values are important to us is an understatement. Our values make us who and what we are and are reflected in every statement we make, every advice we give.

Our values are what underpin our promises, inform our negotiations, guide us in our choice of clients and candidates. Without them, we are nothing.

Our service should be delivered with:

• Integrity
• Honesty
• Commitment
• Passion
• Knowledge
• Consideration
• Humility

We can only promise to try to live by our values in every situation. Ours is not to judge how well we achieve this, nor quibble if we are found wanting. It is simply to deliver the best performance we can in the hope and expectation that it will meet and exceed the needs of our clients and candidates.