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Our 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.

Rocket 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.

The 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.

As 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.

Consumers 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.