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Mr Lawyer enters the online ‘find a solicitor’ fray
Thursday, 30 August 2012A new ‘find a solicitor’ website that prioritises lawyers with good feedback from their clients is set to go live in October. MrLawyer.co.uk claims it will “help to change the way the legal industry currently operates”.
Tags: Online Legal Services
Posted in Latest news, Marketing & PR
News in brief: online directory launch, Scottish LPO bid, cash-flow squeeze, and more
Friday, 24 August 2012Our regular round-up of news you may have missed includes an international online directory, Scotland looking for a piece of the LPO market, worsening cash-flow at law firms, a free probate offer, and much more besides.
Tags: legal process outsourcing, Online Legal Services, probate
Posted in Finance, Latest news, News In Brief, Outsourcing
Exclusive: now the Canadians target UK’s online legal services market
Thursday, 9 August 2012An online legal document business from Canada is set to launch in the UK this month, starting with a will which it plans to promote through group buying websites like Groupon, Legal Futures can reveal.
Tags: Legal Services Board, Online Legal Services, will-writing
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor
Here come the Americans as Rocket Lawyer starts recruiting law firms
Monday, 30 July 2012Rocket Lawyer, the Google-Ventures backed online legal document service, has today launched its On Call programme into the UK, the first step towards the much-anticipated website going live to the public at the end of the year, Legal Futures can report.
Tags: Online Legal Services
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor, Technology
From click to court – is this the first ever automated brief to counsel?
Friday, 27 July 2012What is possibly the first ever automated brief to counsel has been claimed by unique online legal service Road Traffic Representation. Claire Burtwistle, a barrister at Old Bailey Chambers in London, was briefed by the client through the site.
Tags: Barristers, Online Legal Services
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor, Technology
Online legal documents: “not a place for the faint-hearted”
Tuesday, 12 June 2012The only winners in the online legal documents business are those supplying services to the likes of law firms, financial institutions and trade associations – rather than selling them directly to the end-user – new research has found. It warned that engineering online legal documents is not an end in itself.
Tags: Online Legal Services
Posted in Latest news, Marketing & PR, Technology
Internet revolution “yet to reach legal services” as consumers cry out for better online help
Friday, 8 June 2012The Internet revolution has “yet to reach legal services”, new Legal Services Board research has found, meaning consumers jump at the idea of an ‘official’ online resource to help them resolve their legal issues.
Tags: Legal Services Board, Online Legal Services
Posted in Latest news, Legal Services Board, Technology
Back to the past to save the future
Friday, 1 June 2012As a new tech boom gets underway in Silicon Valley, all eyes have been on Mark Zuckerburg’s Facebook, whose initial public offering valued the social network at float at a staggering $104bn. Elsewhere, another California-based company is seeking to raise $120m, an enterprise which has taken the US legal world by storm and has been heralded by commentators as “poised to partake in one of the most significant disruptions American business has ever seen”. That company is LegalZoom, the leading provider of online legal services to consumers and small businesses in the US, and it is coming to the UK this year.
Tags: Online Legal Services
Posted in Blog
LegalZoom gears up for UK entry with $120m IPO
Monday, 14 May 2012LegalZoom, the leading US online legal documents service, is to boost its plans to open in the UK this year with an initial public offering in New York that aims to raise $120m (£75m). LegalZoom said international expansion was one of the main reasons for going public.
Tags: Online Legal Services
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor
Ombudsman hints at giving users of online legal services access to redress
Wednesday, 9 May 2012Consumers using online legal services should have access to proper redress, the Legal Ombudsman has suggested. Adam Sampson said he was not convinced there is a difference between a legal product and a legal service.
Tags: Legal Ombudsman, LeO, Online Legal Services
Posted in Latest news, Legal Ombudsman, Technology