Perspectives
The story of Deloitte Legal
Deloitte Legal Czech Republic is part of Deloitte Legal, a global full-service law-firm of over 2,800 legal professionals operating across 80+ countries.
While benefiting from the resources and insights of a global firm, we make every effort to maintain an on-the-ground understanding of substantive legal and regulatory matters, our local markets, and the latest industry-specific issues.
We take an integrated approach to providing seamless legal services in the CE region: Present in 19 countries, with more than 470 legal professionals fully qualified in their respective jurisdictions, we offer innovative, technology enabled legal solutions and their cross-functional delivery with the tax, corporate, finance, and consulting teams within Deloitte. Due to this, Deloitte Legal is rapidly becoming one of the leading legal services providers in the region delivering unmatched bundled business solutions.
In terms of headcount, we currently rank as one of the largest law firms in the Czech Republic. Due to our rapid growth and client satisfaction, we have maintained double-digit revenue growth and employ more than 90 legal professionals located in five offices throughout the Czech Republic (Prague, Brno, Ostrava, Pilsen, Hradec Králové).
We advise an extensive portfolio of clients, ranging from well-known businesses and financial institutions to innovative start-ups and market disruptors, in some of their most complex and high profile matters. We provide the premier guidance they need to function in today’s competitive business world.
Deloitte Legal offers a full scope of legal services in all the main commercial practice areas, including Corporate/M&A, Real Estate, Finance and Dispute Resolution and we have also achieved prominence in some of the most dramatically growing legal fields, including Business Integrity, Tax Litigation & Controversy, Waste Management & Environmental Liability, E-commerce, Tech Transactions and Fintech. Due to the size of our team, we can specialize in cutting-edge areas of legal expertise that smaller law offices alone cannot cover.
Our core values reflect the priorities on which we build our success. We have achieved extraordinary results by always striving to provide and remain committed to excellent legal advice at the highest levels, unparalleled responsiveness to client demands and communication, top-notch industry specific insight coupled with Deloitte’s other service lines, and coherent and fair pricing of legal services. We are thought leaders who create long-term bonds with our clients and help them solve some of their most critical issues.
Besides providing regular legal advice, we help our clients orient themselves in the ever-changing legal environment in their day-to-day business activities through seminars, workshops, in-house training, and webcasts on trending market topics. In the past year, we have organised over 20 events dedicated to M&A, M&A Tax, Competition, HR, Technology, Brexit and other timely topics.There is some text
We also focus on stimulating discussion in the Czech business community, among politicians, and the public, regarding the quality of adopted legal regulations, including their impact on business, by organising, for the 11th time in a row, the annual Act of the Year survey.
The act of the year report 2018
An Innovative Approach
We are the driving market force behind taking an innovative approach to legal services. We have established a specialized team which focuses on monitoring which legal services can be automated or commoditised, which services require the labour of lawyers, which services can be performed by non-legal professionals and, consequently, which technologies or processes can be introduced into our own daily operations in order to achieve maximum efficiency.
By way of example, after successfully using it in several projects, we are now fine-tuning our internal tool for automated document review. This enables us to conduct high-volume document review work effectively and thus offer cost savings to clients.
Similarly, we are pioneers in alternative methods of product delivery to our clients. We will soon replace the majority of email correspondence with communication through our online portal which will also allow clients to keep track of their projects in real time.
Finally, we benefit from the expertise of non-legal professionals covering data analytics, statistics, technology, and project management who are regularly involved in our projects. This is again a distinctive trait of our services compared to other law firms - as a result, we achieve maximum efficiency.
Diversity & Inclusion
We are proud of the diversity of our team, and that we have created an environment in which people feel involved, respected, valued, and able to bring their “authentic” selves to the business. We are committed to maintaining our inclusive working environment free from any form of discrimination. Roughly, half of our lawyers are female and firm wide there is about 54% female staff. Through our “SheXO” programme, we enable executive women to develop boardroom skills while facilitating personal and professional growth. Our goal is to retain and develop the best talent and build an inclusive culture, which embraces all differences and addresses unconscious bias, in order to build the strongest corporate culture resulting in the highest performing, client-centric team.