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The legal support you need.

When you need it.

For Enterprise Organisations

Whether you’re facing a complex legal challenge, an overstretched team, or covering someone’s absence, we can help with legal support for your enterprise organisation.

With a pool of pre-vetted lawyers, general counsels, paralegals and specialists in niche areas of law, you can select your preferred legal consultant or assemble the team that suits your needs.

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Why work with Obelisk?

  • All our consultants, lawyers and paralegals are city-trained & pre-vetted.
  • Our proprietary matching platform matches
    you with the right legal professional.
  • 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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Committed to high standards

We are a B Corp Certified™ organisation with a clear social-impact mission.

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Committed to fair living wages

We are committed to ensuring that everyone can earn a wage that meets their everyday needs.

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Committed to women in law

Obelisk Support is the only 100% female-founded and managed legal services provider in the UK.

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

What we offer

Interim Legal Team

If you’re experiencing a work overload our flexible legal professionals can help with anything from reviewing contracts to complex legal tasks.

Lawyer on demand

Whether your team is facing family leave, sickness, or just an increased workload, we’ve got you covered.

Projects

When you have a specific legal requirement, we assemble fully managed virtual teams with the right skills and experience for a fixed price. 

Paralegals

For scale-ups who may not have a legal team and need flexible legal resources on demand, our flexible legal professionals are here to help.

Our Legal Specialisms

M&A Lawyers

Major transactions & post acquisition

Document Review

Preparing, reviewing & amending

Commercial Lawyers

Contract drafting, review & negotiation

Employment Lawyers

Advice & documentation

Corporate Lawyers

+ Commercial Lawyers

Company Reporting

Company secretarial and governance

Data Protection Lawyers

Data privacy / GDPR specialists

Real Estate Lawyers

Commercial property legal

Construction Lawyers

Construction projects legal

IP Lawyers

Intellectual property legal support

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Case study: Flexible legal services for a global healthcare business

As the new UK General Counsel, in a global healthcare business, one our clients faced the task of building up their legal organisation from scratch. The nature of the business meant that there were peaks and troughs in their workload that needed to be balanced against the demands of regulatory work and designing an operating model to support the business as it grew. Obelisk Support delivered the solution introducing remote, flexible legal support.

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Meet some of our consultants

Christina: Paralegal

Christina: Paralegal

Christina has spent the last three years working as a paralegal, with a unique blend of both public and private sector experience. She has worked in a range of areas, including GDPR, employment law, commercial law and regulatory reporting.
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Anna: Corporate Lawyer

Anna: Corporate Lawyer

Introducing Anna Anna is a solicitor with experience in private practice and in-house roles dealing with corporate and commercial matters, more recently for large telecom companies. Can you describe your experience of working through Obelisk? I have worked on ...
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Golnar: Commercial & Compliance Lawyer

Golnar: Commercial & Compliance Lawyer

Golnar is a qualified French Jurist and has worked internationally for a number of years with a number of organisations. Golnar’s previous projects include developing and implementing contract risk assessment processes for the EMEIA region and supporting on ...
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For Enterprise Organisations FAQs

Why choose flexible legal services for an established organisation?

As a legal or regulatory and compliance team working in an enterprise organisation, delivering consistent, quality legal support to your business is essential. On the one hand, you’re fire-fighting and managing risk. On the other hand, you know that understanding the business and stakeholder management is increasingly critical to your role. Using flexible legal services allows you and your team to successfully navigate your organisation through uncertain, dynamic and increasingly complex market conditions by accessing lawyers on demand, in-house paralegals and flexible legal support that you can rely on with speed and ease. Partnering with Obelisk Legal Support on your panel gives legal teams in mature, large organisations the agility you need to support the future success of your business and your customers: 1. Save time on recruitment and training; 2. Benefit from built-in project management on larger projects and dedicated account management; 3. Ensure effective cost control of your legal spend - working with many of the FTSE100, we are well-versed with - legal platforms such as Persuit 4. Increase your supplier diversity - Obelisk Support is the only 100% female founded and managed legal service provider in the UK.

Do you work with multinationals?

Yes. As well as covering all aspects of business for the UK, our team includes lawyers and paralegals qualified to practise in Italy, France, Germany + Various other EMEA and APAC jurisdictions

Can I contact Obelisk Support's CEO and founder Dana Denis-Smith directly for a meeting?

Yes, our founder and CEO Dana Denis-Smith is always delighted to hear from and meet with other legal professionals and business leaders. Please do use the Client Enquiry form and mention that you would like to meet directly with Dana.

Is Obelisk Support a law firm?

No, Obelisk Support is not a law firm. It is an alternative legal service provider (ALSP) that provides interim and project-based legal support to businesses. Obelisk Support was founded in 2010 by Dana Denis-Smith, formerly a lawyer at Linklaters, to meet the growing demand for flexible and cost-effective legal services through delivering new ways of working. powered by a community of highly-skilled, predominantly City-trained legal professionals with in-house expertise who want to work flexibly.

Why should enterprise organisations embrace diversity and inclusion?

There is a significant amount of research which demonstrates that diversity of experience and expertise leads to better business outcomes; increasing diversity in your supply chain positively impacts commercial gains and helps to mitigate risk in your organisation and a legal sector which better reflects the diverse community it serves is more able to uphold the Rule of Law. Despite more women entering the legal profession than men, only 30% of senior positions, including firms’ partners, are made of women. Over 40% of lawyers have primary caring responsibilities for children or adult caring responsibilities and there is a significant under-representation of disabled lawyers (5% only) compared to the UK workforce. SRA 2021 statistics. At Obelisk Support we champion new ways of work that opens opportunities more fairly for everyone in the law. As the UK's only 100% female-founded and managed legal services provider, we have worked with many organisations - including 35% of the FTSE100, to advance diversity and inclusion in their legal teams.

Do you offer alternative fee arrangements (AFAs)?

Yes. We understand that every organisation has bespoke needs and that transparency of costs and managing legal spend is important. We are well versed in working with legal platforms such as Persuit and implementing and managing alternative fee arrangements (AFAs). Since our start in 2010, Obelisk Support has relished stepping up to bring the type of fresh thinking and client-centric solutions that have, for the first time, given general counsel genuine options when allocating their spend. Outcomes-focused, we deliver the innovation that the passing of the Legal Services Act intended - flexibility, new ways of working, diversity and a better experience for our clients.
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How does insurance work?

Obelisk believes that the alternative legal services that we provide should offer the same peace of mind as a law firm, and so we hold comprehensive solicitors’ professional indemnity insurance to protect our clients. All of our legal professionals who do not hold their own policies are covered by this insurance. Full details of our insurance can be provided upon request.