LOD launches online marketplace for flexible lawyers
Flexible lawyer business creates online portal to connect clients and lawyers.
May 08, 2016 at 07:03 PM
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BLP's flexible lawyer spin-off LOD has created a new online lawyer booking site, called Spoke, to connect lawyers with clients.
The site – www.spoke.law – opened for lawyer registration on 27 April and LOD aims to have 500 lawyers signed up by the time of the site's official launch in July.
LOD, which launched in 2007, offers law firms and businesses lawyers on a flexible basis, providing freelance lawyers for secondments and other support roles.
Simon Harper, LOD's co-founder, said: "People like and expect an easy and efficient way to buy services by using digital products, so creating one for the model we are already in felt like the right next step."
The service will be open to both existing LOD lawyers and other freelance solicitors or barristers.
Harper said: "There will be a vetting process to make sure that lawyers on there are ones our clients want to work with."
The service will offer a range of expertise, from advice on commercial contracts to more niche specialisms.
"Having lawyers with niche areas of expertise is something the flexible lawyer market hasn't particularly catered for in the past. It is difficult to do without this type of platform," Harper added.
The service is aimed at existing LOD clients and also "smaller in-house teams in medium-sized companies where flexible lawyering wasn't something they had pursued in the past", according to Harper.
The service will be free for existing LOD lawyers but freelance lawyers will be charged a percentage of the work that they win through the platform.
Spoke will initially be launched in the UK but, according to Harper, LOD would "look at internationalising it" but currently has no plans to.
In February this year, LOD merged with Asia-Pacific counterpart AdventBalance, which has 200 lawyers and consultants across Hong Kong, Sydney, Singapore, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.
Harper indicated that Hong Kong or Australia would be the likeliest jurisdiction for an international rollout of the Spoke product but said there were currently no firm plans to do so.
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