Obelisk Legal Services
Interim legal team
A flexible pool of experts as an extension to your team, tailored with the legal skills you need, for a fixed price per month
Lawyer on demand
Trust our pool of pre-vetted, City-trained lawyers with in-house experience – for secondment cover to transactions support
Flexible legal support
Boost your core legal team to meet project goals or get help on ad hoc legal support for your growing organisation
Paralegals
Extra support to boost your productivity – our best-in-class paralegals can help from triaging workflow to compliance tasks
How it works. As simple as 1,2,3
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Describe
your brief
Hours, days, or months of support – whatever you need
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We'll connect
you
We match you with your legal professional – quickly & effortlessly
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Get started
We manage onboarding and related admin tasks
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Scale on demand
We’ll oversee service delivery and project management
Who we work with
Obelisk Support delivers flexible legal services for law firms and organisations – including the UK’s FTSE 100, powered by a community of highly-experienced legal professionals, carefully hand-picked to ensure we have the right talent for your project or needs.
Whether you are a large, established legal team looking for secondment cover, sole counsel or a fast-paced in-house team seeking access to trusted legal support when needed, an organisation experiencing rapid growth and transformation or a law firm requiring project support – we have you covered.
Working with us helps you focus on the work that matters and be more proactive and productive. By giving predictability of costs, you are in control and empowered. Plus, you’re championing flexible working and helping us keep great talent in the industry.
Our diverse talent pool includes experience across 20+ sectors, with expertise across key commercial practice areas. We are proud to offer lawyers at all levels of experience from NQ to general counsels, in addition to our best-in-class pool of paralegal talent.

How we can help you
For Enterprise Organisations
Free-up time to allow your internal team to focus on strategic projects
For In-house Legal Teams
Manage your costs and get that extra boost with tailored legal services support
For Growth Businesses
Our flexible legal support can help you navigate the unpredictable business landscape
Our offer
Flexible legal support for your business
Expert, experienced lawyers & paralegals
Dedicated account and project management
Bespoke pricing to suit your needs
All recruitment, onboarding, & admin
Why Obelisk?
A large pool of pre-vetted, highly skilled lawyers and paralegals
Quality matches powered by our proprietary matching platform
We pioneer new ways of working to help our clients succeed
We are committed to creating a more inclusive legal profession








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What our clients say
“Thanks to the wide range of talent and flexibility at Obelisk Support, we’ve been able to build a legal team to match our exact needs in a timeframe that we hadn’t thought possible.”
“I’ve recommended Obelisk to multiple GCs, and heartily recommend them to any GC who is managing transformation in their business or function.”
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Our Legal Specialisms
M&A Lawyers
Major transactions and
post acquisition support
Commercial Lawyers
Commercial contract drafting, review and negotiation
Corporate Lawyers
Corporate and Commercial Lawyers
Data Protection and Privacy Lawyers
Data protection and data privacy / GDPR specialists
Construction Lawyers
Construction projects and commercial property legal support
Employment Lawyers
Advice & documentation
Company Reporting
Company secretarial and governance support
Document Review
Preparing, reviewing and amending documents
Case study: Ocado
Ocado is the world’s biggest online-only grocery platform. Pioneering technology combined with customer focus have led to the company being poised to make a dramatic difference to the shopping habits of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, both through their own brand and by providing solutions and technology to retailers across the globe. With the company prioritising the development of their own IP, entering into new joint ventures and continuing the pace of innovation, Ocado’s legal team needs to be agile, expert and ready for anything.

We do things differently
Championing making legal work more inclusive since 2010
Flexible Legal Services FAQs
Do Obelisk Support consultants only work from home?
Can I contact you about one-off projects and small pieces of work?
Where is the best place to find lawyers in London?
Is Obelisk Support a law firm?
How could I let my legal team be more productive?
Do I get to see the lawyer cv before I work with them?
Is Obelisk an alternative legal service provider?
What is the Obelisk Community?
Do you work on multilingual legal projects?
Our thinking

Why we’re stepping out for equal access to justice: the London Legal Walk
Access to justice is a basic human right – one that shouldn’t be determined by a person's financial situation. The ability to receive quality and timely legal advice can profoundly improve an individual or a family's life, helping to manage problems such as debt,...

Report – Liberalisation: Reflections on the future of legal service delivery
15 years on from the passing of the Legal Services Act, has the legal industry successfully advocated for, and taken advantage of, the mood change, and the opportunities presented opening up the legal market?
In this report, we resurface the leading voices that called for change and pioneered the way; explore the impact on legal teams and cast an eye to what the future may hold. (published November 2022)

2to3days: The First 100 Days Project
Dana Denis-Smith gave details of The First 100 Days Project, which creates a library of stories through role models for the current legal generation, informing and educating them on the role of women. It encourages women to talk about their life and work experiences....

Your First 100 Days in a New Role: Tips for General Counsels
Guest post by Niamh O’Keeffe, Leadership advisor & author of ‘Your First 100 Days: how to make maximum impact in your new role’, second edition published by FT Pearson 2019, addressing how general counsels can thrive in their first 100 days. Niamh advises...