Digital Law
Counsel.

The Digital Law Desk is built for one-off, ad-hoc questions: you get in touch when something comes up, and a consultant from a wider pool picks up the file. The Digital Law Counsel is built for a different kind of workload: one dedicated expert, fixed capacity, and structural follow-up on your files.

Absolutely. Your Digital Law Counsel acts as an extension of your team: in consultation with your SPOC, they can join internal meetings, communicate directly with department heads, and take part in negotiations with external suppliers or partners.

To support important negotiations as well as possible, we also build in flexibility: if the expert’s schedule allows, we can simply move the weekly focus block to fit.

Yes. At the start of the collaboration, we look at the type of work you expect, so we can assign an expert who matches that profile. Is international negotiation a key part of the role? Then we bring in an expert with experience in that area. Language matters here too: if your context calls for work in French or English, we make sure the expert is fluent in those languages.

Our experts are naturally well versed in European and international legal frameworks, but should specific local expertise be needed, our expert can also draw on an international network of local partners, in consultation with you and with your agreement.

Your counsel remains your fixed point of contact, but is always backed by the wider expertise within CRANIUM. For a niche question, they can effortlessly bring in internal specialists or draw on targeted senior support.

The minimum duration is one month. Most clients choose three, six or twelve months. We always aim for a long-term partnership with our clients: that fits naturally with the purpose of the Digital Law Counsel, where building lasting knowledge of your organisation and ensuring continuity are central.

Your account manager reviews the collaboration and volume together with you, and agrees the best way forward: extending, scaling up or down, or switching to a different model. If you end the collaboration, your legal professional makes sure all files and documentation are handed over cleanly to your internal team or SPOC.

Absolutely. You can switch to a different Service Pack at the start of a new month, and absorb temporary peaks if the schedule allows. Your account manager reviews this with you on a regular basis.

The minimum hours in your Service Pack are billed monthly to guarantee your capacity. Unused hours expire at the end of the month, though you can shift them within that month if your expert’s schedule allows.

Your expert discusses workload weekly during the alignment moment. We consider going up to 20% above the minimum hours a normal workload peak, which your expert absorbs flexibly as long as the schedule allows. To fully cap your budget, we can optionally agree a strict maximum. If the workload looks set to structurally exceed this, your expert flags it proactively, so your budget always stays clear and predictable.

All incoming requests go through your SPOC, who sets priorities together with your legal professional during the fixed alignment moments. If an urgent matter comes up, your expert reshuffles the focus work in consultation with your SPOC, so critical risks are addressed quickly without the budget spiralling out of control.

CRANIUM makes sure the collaboration keeps running. For planned absences, your legal professional makes arrangements with your SPOC in advance, and for longer absences, another qualified expert takes over based on the existing documentation.

CRANIUM retains full responsibility. The key difference with traditional staffing (where you’re often assigned a profile and left to work things out yourself) is that our expert never works in isolation. Your expert is fully supported by the CRANIUM team, and every piece of advice has to meet our quality standards. In practice, that means important deliverables always go through an internal senior review before they reach you, saving your SPOC valuable time.

Once the profile and Service Pack have been agreed with your account manager, a legal professional can typically start within one to two weeks.