The work behind the advice.
LexCore International carries the volume and the process of legal work — for firms with more matters than bench, for in-house teams buried in the routine half of their function, and for companies that have neither. Delivered from Lahore, under the supervision of a barrister of Lincoln's Inn.
Who we work for
Law firms
Capacity you can raise for a disclosure exercise or a deal and stand down afterwards, without carrying it on the payroll all year.
See the work → IIIn-house teams
The routine half of your department, run against thresholds you set. You keep the judgment, the relationships and the escalations.
See the work → IIINo legal function
The function itself, built and then run, before a general counsel is a salary you can put to the board.
See the work →Approach
Supervision is the practice. Everything else is capacity.
Legal outsourcing fails in one predictable way: the work is inexpensive, nobody senior reads it, and the client spends the saving putting it right. Four commitments prevent that, and they are written into every engagement.
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Named supervision
A qualified lawyer is accountable for your work and is named in the engagement letter. Nothing leaves without review, and anything beyond your agreed thresholds returns to you before we proceed.
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Your environment
We work inside your systems, on accounts you provision and can revoke, under your retention schedule. For most clients that means no personal data crosses a border at all — which is the cleanest answer to the transfer question.
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Defined scope
An agreed scope, an agreed turnaround, and a monthly account of volume, timeliness and quality. Engagements are structured so that leaving costs you nothing but notice.
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Conflicts and confidence
Conflicts are checked before every engagement and every matter within it. We decline rather than screen, which limits how many clients we hold in any one sector. That is intentional.
Engagement
Three ways to buy this. Volume decides which.
Most providers offer the structure that suits them. The structure that suits you depends almost entirely on how much work you send.
- iHow genuinely repeatable the work is once the playbook exists
- iiThe jurisdictions in play, and how much local counsel we must instruct
- iiiTurnaround required, and whether it extends past our working day
- ivThe state of your templates, precedents and existing registers
- vTerm, and whether volume is committed or indicative
We put a figure to it after a conversation and a sample of real work, never before. If your work sits favourably against the five points above, say so when you write — it is the part of the discussion where the number actually moves.
Counsel
- Chief Legal & Compliance Officer, PepsiCo international franchise bottler
- Head of Legal & Corporate Governance, Fauji Foundation
- Legal Counsel, Pak-Arab Refinery Limited
- Senior Associate, Ehsan & Ehsan
- Surridge & Beecheno; Amhurst Brown
- Called to the Bar of England & Wales, Lincoln's Inn2010
Saad Ehsan Waraich
Barrister-at-Law of Lincoln's Inn. Certified board director and accredited civil and commercial mediator.
He has built these functions rather than bought them. As Chief Legal & Compliance Officer of a PepsiCo international franchise bottler he structured the legal, compliance, internal controls and internal audit departments from the ground up, localised PepsiCo's global ethics framework, and reduced an inherited portfolio of more than a hundred matters by roughly half.
Before that, at Fauji Foundation, adviser to the Chairman and non-executive directors across more than twenty group companies in energy, fertiliser, FMCG, financial services and infrastructure. At PARCO, counsel on the Coastal Refinery — a 250,000 barrel-per-day facility of some six billion dollars — and on FEED and EPC contracting for the White Oil Pipeline. Earlier, ICC arbitration in Singapore, and advisory work for the Asian Development Bank and the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan.
FIDIC and EPC contracting, international arbitration, board governance and regulator-facing compliance are not specialisms added to this practice. They are what the last fifteen years were.
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