ADVISORY & CONSULTING

For Legal Teams

Legal teams are routinely tasked with navigating complex, high-stakes human situations, including complaints, conflict, harm, and organizational risk, often without the frameworks needed to fully understand what is unfolding beneath the surface.

Myrna provides senior-level advisory and consultation to strengthen how legal teams and leaders assess, respond to, and make decisions in these environments.

Bringing a trauma-informed, systems-aware lens to work that is frequently treated as purely procedural.

This work is part of Myrna McCallum’s Healing Imperative, grounded in humanity-centered Practice and the understanding that legal processes are never just procedural. They are human. And how legal teams respond to harm, power, and complexity shapes everything that follows.

Core Services

Strategic Advisory on Complaints & High-Risk Matters

Support at the most critical stages of a file, where early decisions shape outcomes.

Complaint assessment and risk analysis
Identification of power dynamics, retaliation, and systemic factors
Guidance on complex or sensitive allegations
Real-time consultation on active files

Investigation Strategy & Decision-Making

Strengthening the integrity and defensibility of investigative processes.

Framing scope and lines of inquiry
Interview strategy and approach
Credibility assessment through a trauma-informed lens
Advisory on findings and outcomes

Trauma-Informed Legal Practice

Integrating a deeper understanding of human behavior into legal processes.

How trauma impacts memory, disclosure, and presentation
Reducing procedural harm and re-traumatization
Improving engagement with complainants, respondents, and witnesses
Bridging the gap between legal standards and lived experience

Workplace Risk & Systems Analysis

Identifying patterns that extend beyond individual complaints.

Organizational and workplace environment scans
Analysis of recurring conflict, group dynamics, and cultural stressors
Early identification of systemic risk and liability exposure

Policy & Process Review

Ensuring frameworks hold under real-world conditions.

Harassment and discrimination policies
Complaint handling procedures
Investigation protocols
Alignment between policy, practice, and organizational values

Leadership Advisory & Strategic Support for Legal Professionals

Senior legal professionals are often required to make consequential decisions in isolation, under pressure, with incomplete information, significant human impact, and the added weight of professional and ethical obligation.

This is not traditional coaching. It is a focused, strategic thinking space designed specifically for legal professionals navigating environments where trauma, power, harm, and accountability are live, and where getting it wrong carries real consequences for people, institutions, and the integrity of the process itself.

I provide confidential, high-level advisory and coaching to leaders navigating:

Complex, high-risk workplace situations
Decisions involving harm, power, and competing obligations
Leadership strain, decision fatigue, and cumulative exposure
Situations that fall outside standard policy or precedent

Who I Work With

In-house legal teams
Public sector and government
Unions and regulatory bodies
Senior organizational leadership

Engagement Models

Confidential, case-specific consultation
Ongoing advisory relationships
Project-based engagements and organizational reviews

Outcomes

Clearer judgment in complex situations
Stronger, more defensible processes
Reduced legal, organizational, and human risk
Stronger reputation & relationships