Grow your career with Hyphen
As a legal interim manager, you want assignments that match your experience and ambition. Hyphen Legal connects experienced legal interim managers with high-quality temporary assignments at organisations in Flanders and Brussels.
Why choose legal interim management
In the driver’s seat of your career
Interim management puts you in control of your career. You choose your assignments, your schedule and how you work. This gives you the freedom to further develop your experience and keep your expertise relevant across different organisations and contexts.
Keep growing through variety
Every interim assignment brings new insights. By working in different environments, you broaden your experience and keep your legal expertise sharp and up to date. From generalist to specialist, you continue to develop as a versatile legal professional.
Earn what you’re worth
Your rate is determined based on your experience and the nature of the assignment. Hyphen ensures transparency, fair agreements and market insight so that you can work with confidence.
What you can expect from us
A partner who stays involved
Our partnership doesn’t end when your project begins. We remain involved as a discreet sounding board - offering advice, follow-up and practical support. So that you can work efficiently, grow and do business.
Time for your project, not for admin
We take care of the practical follow-up. We handle contract management, invoicing and payments smoothly and transparently.
Whilst you focus on your projects, we monitor the market and keep an eye out for opportunities that match your expertise.
This allows you to focus on what really matters, without wasting time on operational red tape.
Market insight, tailored advice
We actively share our knowledge of the interim legal market with you. You’ll gain insight into standard rates, demand from organisations and developments within legal interim management. This enables you to make informed choices about your next assignment.
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Our approach
Getting to know each other properly first
Through a digital or face-to-face conversation, we get to know each other and work together to identify the roles for which you’re a potential candidate.
We actively search for the right assignment
Following the introductory meeting, we’ll focus on finding projects that match your profile and where you can make a real difference. Tailored to your ambitions, expertise and practical preferences.
A proposal that works for both sides
We’ll only put you forward after consultation. If your profile matches both the client and the assignment, we’ll clearly highlight your experience and personality. You’ll receive an introduction that’s just right, with a focus on who you are.
Go into the interview prepared and confident
Your business manager will guide you through the preparation for the initial meeting with the client. You’ll be given background information on the assignment, the team and what’s important, so that you’re well prepared when you sit down with them.
We organise the onboarding down to the last detail
As soon as a match is found, we ensure a smooth start. Rates, contracts and agreements are set out transparently. You focus on your assignment; we make sure everything is in order.
Ongoing support throughout your assignment
We remain available throughout your assignment too: as a sounding board, sparring partner and mentor. We think alongside you, follow up and continue to build your career as an interim manager together.
Would you like to work with Hyphen?
Book a meeting so we can discuss what you’re looking for and where you want to go.
Frequently Asked Questions
We start with a personal introductory meeting. We listen to your story, map out your experience and ambitions, and work with you to identify which projects suits you best.
Even if you aren’t currently working through us, we stay in touch and keep your availability and preferences in mind. As soon as a project comes along that’s a good fit (in terms of both content and feel), we’ll discuss it together and do everything we can to secure the project. Once you're started, we stay closely involved. Step by step, we build a collaboration that keeps growing.
Our assignments span every domain of a modern legal organisation. They often involve projects within the broad scope of corporate and commercial law, but may just as easily be more niche assignments requiring specific expertise. These might include projects in IP/IT, data protection, real estate, compliance, and so on.
Sometimes it's about continuity, sometimes about strengthening core capabilities or driving change.
That mix creates a wide variety of assignments. We have both full-time and part-time projects in our portfolio.
Absolutely. We discuss every assignment with you first. Only once you agree with the content, timing, location, duration and rate, do we introduce you to the client. Next comes an introductory or intake conversation with the client. Only once both parties are satisfied do we start the assignment. Our business managers guide you through the entire process. The better we get to know you, the more accurately we can match you with clients.
The duration of an assignment varies depending on the assignment and the organisation. On average, projects last between 3 and 9 months. Some assignments are clearly defined and shorter in nature, such as maternity leave replacement. Other projects, for example those involving strategic changes, can last longer than a year.
For legal assignments, we work on an all-inclusive daily rate. At the end of the month, you invoice for the number of days worked, and we ensure payment within 14 days of the invoice date.
Sometimes a client asks for a timesheet to be attached as supporting documentation; in which case you include it with your invoice.
Although you work independently as a freelancer, you’re not on your own. Your business manager knows both you and the client and monitors the project closely. If you have any questions about the work, or if something isn't going smoothly, you can count on a knowledgeable sparring partner . You’re also welcome to attend events, or pop into the office to work or catch up.