360 Law Firm

Tailoring teams to clients’ needs!

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Text: Mariano Anthony Davies

360 Law Firm is a full-service Danish law firm that assists many companies in all legal and tax matters. They understand the need for innovation, safety, performance, compliance and other regulatory matters. Their clients are served by a One Point of Contact so that these clients do not need to devote resources to talking to many different specialists. This innovative legal services approach is offered to clients in all Nordic countries and beyond, handling legal differences in the local market consistently and cost-efficiently.

They believe in collaboration and leadership. Everyone has a specific role in the team and is accountable for making the most out of their role and for taking ownership for development. For them, leadership is an enabler for nurturing the team, ensuring the right competencies, and serving colleagues to ensure maximum influence in their working day. They seem to aim for a culture of recognition and appreciation and the reward is great employee satisfaction.

Their team concept consists of team members from many different nationalities, which allows them to shape an organisation with many values and perspectives that other cultures can add - from Norwegian humour to Spanish temperament to Italian charm and with a Danish organisation at point. This approach helps their teams to reflect the culture of those who shape it.

Different approach

They use the analogy of a symphony to explain their unique approach. To produce a successful symphony, you cannot let the conductor play all instruments. You need to let the conductor lead the different experts on each instrument. They work as a team based on the individual’s competencies and wishes. They do not believe in the “one size fits all” approach. They believe that if an employee has a special gift or a passion, it needs to be nurtured. Therefore, they select colleagues based on both competencies but also on their positive and accommodating approach.

This means that they have designed internal processes that ensure a common overview and that they can solve the tasks at hand in the right order. The positive side effect of this approach is that there is always a colleague with whom a task can be shared. How is this different?

• An assignment is passed on to the Playmaker.

• The Playmaker sets the best team together to solve the assignment and prioritises the order of the assignments.

• The assignment is solved by team members with the right competencies and best availability.

Why clients choose 360 law firm

In competitive working environments, large and mid-size companies face a wide range of legal issues and need access to different areas of legal competence to meet these needs. Traditionally, they have had two options: they can employ a legal team of different specialists or use established external law firms as consulting services. Both approaches can be costly for a company. If it employs a team of specialist lawyers to cover all its legal needs, it is unlikely that these specialists will have enough tasks to justify the expense of employing them. This is why most companies have traditionally adopted an approach that combines employing legal counsel (to cover their general needs) with using external law firms for their specialised needs as and when they are needed.

The 360 Law Firm service approach seems to give companies all the advantages of one external team leader coordinating all their specialised legal needs as and when such needs occur. This unique approach seems to work for companies, who get their legal tasks covered competently and cheaper than either of the two traditional alternatives. At the same time, 360 Law Firm seems able to offer this service package at very competitive rates, thus creating a “win-win.”

360 Law Firm is a Copenhagen-based international law firm that was established in 2020 as an innovative approach to offering legal services.