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At least seven major brands will be launching high-profile campaigns to enter the UK legal services market in the next year, it has been revealed. Meanwhile, an investor is to assist a claims management company acquire several law firms.

Legal publishing giant LexisNexis has become the latest entrant to the automated document assembly market with the launch of LexisSmart. It will next month be linked up to the company’s LawyerLocator referral service so that customers can seek a lawyer review of documents.

It has been quite a couple of weeks. Far from taking a break for the summer, the imminent arrival of alternative business structures (albeit not quite as imminent as expected) has seen the legal market bubbling over. And we learnt that there are lessons to be found from the Vestal Virgins, no less.

Rocket Lawyer, the Google-backed American online legal document business, is set to launch in the UK next year and will be looking for lawyers to offer services to its customers, Legal Futures can reveal. The company says the UK is an attractive destination for its products.

Internet behemoth Google has made its second foray into the legal market by investing in US online legal service Rocket Lawyer. Its venture capital arm, Google Ventures, has joined a group of investors putting $18.5m (£11.4m) into the company, which provides a subscription-based legal document assembly service.