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In-House

Flexible legal capacity when you need it.

Latitude In-House provides organisations with flexible access to senior in-house legal capability. Whether you need short-term coverage, additional capacity for projects, or support for a growing legal function, we deliver practical, business-focused legal support that integrates seamlessly with your team.

Our experience includes senior in-house and leadership roles across legal, governance, and risk, with work spanning Australia, Canada, and global settings. This experience, recognised nationally through peer-reviewed legal awards, enables us to provide pragmatic advice, operational insight, and partnering that keeps teams and projects moving forward.

How we help

  • General Counsel & Legal Support

    Practical, commercial support for in-house teams and business leaders.

    •Day-to-day commercial and corporate legal advice
    • Contract drafting, negotiation, and procurement support
    • Regulatory compliance and statutory obligations
    • Workplace governance, ethics, probity, and conflicts management
    • Support during organisational change, restructures, and significant projects
    • Legal project management for large matters or transactions
    • Short-term backfill for leave or vacancies

  • Business & Corporate Affairs Advisory

    Strategic and operational support for governance and uplift programs.

    • Strategic planning workshops and facilitation
    • Governance, risk, and compliance frameworks
    • Capability reviews for legal, governance, and commercial functions
    • Issues and crisis management support
    • Corporate governance statements and reporting
    • Policy frameworks and internal document development

  • Legal Operations & Optimisation

    Improving capability, efficiency, and legal service delivery.

    • Legal function frameworks, templates, and precedents
    • Process mapping, workflow design, and operational uplift
    • Contract lifecycle management improvements
    • Legal and commercial training for legal, commercial, sales, operations, and leadership teams

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Why Latitude In-House

  • Senior in-house legal experience in complex organisations

  • Commercial and legal experience built between Australia and Canada with global scope

  • National recognition at the Association of Corporate Counsel Australia, Corporate Lawyer Awards in 2022 and 2023

  • Flexible delivery: full-time, part-time, project-based, fractional, or subscription

  • Embedded or remote support to suit your team.

Our process

Here are  the typical steps involved in engaging our In-House services.

1. Initial consultation

Contact us by email or book an appointment and tell us what you need, a bit about your business and team, and the type of engagement and term that you prefer.

2. Initial meeting & costs agreement

At our meeting, we will review the scope of work and our engagement terms with you. If we can assist you, we will provide you with a tailored fee quote along with our client disclosure and costs agreement for you to sign and return to us.

4. Invoicing & feedback

At the end of our engagement, we will issue our final invoice and again canvass your feedback on our in-house service to ensure that your requirements were met and to ensure we continually improve our service offering to our clients.

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3. Onboarding & starting engagement

Once the costs agreement is signed and returned to us, we’ll schedule your in-house counsel support and coordinate completion of any necessary onboarding.

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5. Ending engagement

At the end of our engagement, we will issue our final invoice and again canvass your feedback on our in-house service to ensure that your requirements were met and to ensure we continually improve our service offering to you.

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Our fees

We offer competitive fixed-fee options for our flexible in-house legal support services, payable at various stages during our engagement. Client engagements can be arranged on a full-time, part-time, or monthly subscription basis with a set number of hours that can be used anytime during normal business hours. Fee arrangements can be arranged on an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis.

Our fees will be unique to each client and will depend on your specific requirements. Please contact us to discuss and receive a tailored fee quote. If the engagement cannot be specifically quoted without further information or assessment, we will send you our In-House Services flyer outlining our indicative fees for your consideration.

Frequently asked questions

  • No problem – this is common, especially for businesses without an established legal function. Let’s have a chat and see if we can help you think through your current needs. Contact us by email or book an appointment.

  • We offer flexible support depending on what your business needs. This includes day-to-day legal advisory, contract and procurement support, governance and compliance uplift, HR and workplace governance, legal operations, and short-term backfill during leave or vacancies. We can work remotely, embedded with your team, or as a secondee representing your brand to your clients.

  • Once we understand your needs, we agree on a clear scope and engagement model. You can engage us for a set number of hours each month, as a part-time or full-time secondee, or for a specific project. We integrate quickly with your systems and teams to give you practical, responsive, and reliable support without the overhead of a permanent hire.

  • Our pricing depends on the type of support you need. For predictable or ongoing work, we usually offer fixed-term weekly or monthly arrangements (for example, part-time or full-time support, or a set number of hours per month through a retainer engagement). For project-based or short-term backfill work, we offer fixed-fee (daily, weekly, or monthly) or hourly options depending on the scope and your needs.

  • Yes. Many of our clients already have in-house capability but need extra support during peak periods, for specialist matters, or when a team member is away. We can work alongside your existing legal team, support specific functions (such as procurement, governance, or legal ops), or step in as an interim resource when needed.

  • We work across a wide range of industries, including energy and resources, agribusiness, infrastructure and construction, technology and digital, public sector, and regulated professions. Our experience has been gained almost entirely in similar organisations to the ones we now partner with, which means we understand how your business operates in real life, not just in theory.