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Holy Fashion Group has achieved a number of successes in major trademark disputes thanks to its lean legal team. The team, which currently consists of three lawyers, has had to contend with staff and budget cuts in the face of increase of work load but has nonetheless managed to establish a sophisticated compliance management system providing a comprehensive, world-wide training course. One of the team’s most impressive innovations has been reducing the business’ need to engage with lawyers by developing an electronic contract management system and a legal organisation handbook offering a description of all legal work processes. The team calculates its value to the business with a monthly case reporting tool and profound performance analysis twice a year, but with the team’s dynamics integrated to ensure maximum efficiency it is unlikely to be seen as a drag on costs. The company’s legal director reports to the CFO and is a member of the extended management team while the senior lawyer handles multiple issues directly with the CFO. Within the team, there is a non-lawyer team member working part time as assistant to the CFO.