When planning for 2026, many organizations anticipate growth, new offerings, and operational shifts. To explore how legal needs can evolve alongside these changes, this piece walks through a year with “Good Company,” a fictional organization that illustrates how NMSource steps in when routine demands intersect with unexpected challenges. 

Why NMSource

NMSource is not a generic staffing solution. It’s an integrated extension of the firm, designed to deliver capacity, continuity, and control without sacrificing quality. Engagements follow a proven lifecycle of intake → sourcing → onboarding (if needed) → management → monitoring → follow-up, with rigorous vetting (including conflicts and background checks) to ensure cultural fit and compliance from day one. With an established bench of seasoned contract attorneys, NMSource can rapidly deploy experienced resources to support shifting workloads as business needs fluctuate.

For partners, this model protects client relationships and firm standards while offloading the operational complexity of staffing and management. For clients, it delivers predictable execution at competitive ALSP rates.

A Hypothetical Year with “Good Company”

Q1: Targeted Secondment for Stability

Client Challenge: A key attorney goes on leave, creating a temporary gap in legal coverage at a time when the business needs work to continue without interruption.

How NMSource Supports: NMSource provides a vetted, experienced attorney who integrates directly into the client’s workflow, ensuring uninterrupted coverage. Rather than simply filling a gap, the seconded attorney operates as part of the internal team, absorbing existing processes, maintaining momentum on active matters, and giving the client predictable continuity during periods of transition.

Q2: Vendor Agreement Surge

Client Challenge: Procurement activity spikes, creating pressure on internal teams and the risk of backlog.

How NMSource Supports: When agreement volumes climb, NMSource mobilizes flexible capacity calibrated to the client’s actual workload. Whether supplying a single attorney for short-term overflow or assembling a pop-up team to handle sustained spikes, NMSource flexes with demand, preventing backlog without committing the client to unnecessary long-term staffing.

Q3: Unexpected Data Breach

Client Challenge: A sudden data breach triggers urgent review of vendor agreements for cybersecurity obligations, indemnification terms, SLAs, and breach response responsibilities.

How NMSource Supports: In a breach scenario, speed and precision matter. NMSource can immediately deploy a team of experienced attorneys supported by firm-approved AI tools to conduct rapid triage of agreements. Technology accelerates the initial assessment, while the legal team applies informed judgment to interpret obligations and highlight contractual risk. Unexpected incidents often create urgent, unbudgeted legal spend, so NMSource delivers this support at competitive, predictable rates to help clients manage financial impact during high-pressure events.

Q4: Large-Scale Projects & AI-Driven Agreement Review

Client Challenge: An internal investigation and pre litigation issue emerges, and large volumes of case files and documents must be reviewed to determine whether matters should proceed toward arbitration. The organization faces ongoing, high volume case file and document review, such as continuous intake for arbitration readiness, where controlling costs is essential.
How NMSource Supports: For high-volume case file or document review, NMSource builds a scalable project structure, whether one dedicated attorney or a larger team. AI supported workflows classify documents, flag risk, and extract key data, allowing attorneys to focus on analysis rather than manual sorting. This model significantly reduces turnaround time and cost per file while preserving the quality controls required for litigation or arbitration readiness.

Year-End: Subscription Billing and Backfill Support for Stability

Client Challenge: As year-end pressures and holiday staffing gaps tighten internal capacity, clients look for greater billing certainty, steady monthly spend, and reliable coverage to keep critical work moving.

How NMSource Supports: As year-end approaches, budget certainty and guaranteed coverage often become priorities. To stabilize year-end workflows, NMSource can transition the engagement to a subscription model tied to expected volumes and service levels. This structure delivers predictable costs and continuity during holiday absences or budget-sensitive periods without expanding permanent headcount.

Final Thoughts

This hypothetical year is just a sampling of the flexible services and engagement structures NMSource provides. If your roadmap includes capacity challenges, or you want a contingency plan for the unexpected, feel free to reach out to Cyndi Payne.