The legal support you need.
When you need it.
INTERIM LEGAL SUPPORT
Our Interim Legal Support helps busy in-house legal teams who want to provide timely and effective support to their business, avoiding the bottle necks caused by resourcing challenges and skills gaps.
Our service is personally tailored by our expert matching team to quickly integrate fully insured, experienced lawyers, avoiding the pain, time and risk of permanent hiring.
Interim Legal Support FAQs
How does flexible legal help work in practice?
With flexible legal help from Obelisk support you can tailor the support you need to your business and budget.
From one-off projects with a dedicated legal consultant or the ability to access a virtual legal team of lawyers and paralegals. Our freelance lawyers, paralegals, legal consultants and in-house paralegals work remotely or in hybrid arrangements with some days working from home, others from your offices. They are available to work part-time or full-time for set periods of time, and can work flexibly - by the hour or by the day or on a set project.
How can I augment my legal team?
Our flexible business model, provides legal work that works for you. Whether support on a one-off project such as large scale document review or a single MSA (Master Service Agreement), secondment cover or tapping into a virtual legal team of lawyers and paralegals tailored to your business needs. Our legal consultants and in-house paralegals work remotely or in hybrid arrangements; part-time or full-time for set periods of time.
What happens if a consultant is unwell or has to take leave?
Whilst this is thankfully rare, we can re-assign work if needed to ensure your service is not disrupted.
How does insurance work?
Our lawyers and paralegals are covered by our professional indemnity insurance. In the case of paralegals, they require supervision by a qualified lawyer.
Does Obelisk Support employ only female lawyers?
No, Obelisk Support does not employ only female lawyers. The company has a diverse team of lawyers and paralegals, including both men and women. Obelisk Support is committed to providing equal opportunities for all employees, regardless of gender. Our clients include some of the world's largest companies, including 35% of the FTSE100, growing businesses and several law firms.
Do Obelisk Support consultants only work from home?
No! Whilst many of our consultants work remotely, we can also provide you with consultants who work in your offices or work their days between home and your offices. So you can get rapid turnaround of work from best-in class in-house lawyers, paralegals and highly-qualified legal experts
My business does not have their own lawyer, can I still use Obelisk Support?
We can work with your organisations but, whilst our lawyers are experienced and they are registered with the Solicitors Regulatory Authority or in a foreign jurisdiction, Obelisk Support is not a law firm. We only cover work that is a non-reserved legal activity like that of an in-house lawyer but we cannot guarantee the work quality of the advice they provide.
Paralegals require supervision as they are not qualified professionals, despite having completed some legal studies.
Is there a minimum commitment required?
There is no minimum commitment. Our lawyers and paralegals can work on an hourly or daily basis. Depending on your budget and operational needs, we can report on weekly hours. Obelisk Support clients use our services flexibly – anything from full-time to ad hoc, on demand – and are charged for the time used.
If we like a paralegal or a lawyer, can we offer them a permanent role?
When we get the fit right, we are delighted. We do charge a transfer fee but otherwise you can move them across.
Do you have standard working hours?
A standard working day is 7.5 hours. These are charged at a standard rate (either hourly or daily). Additional hours will be charged as overtime, as agreed on a case-by-case basis with the client.
Our legal consultants and freelance paralegals do sometimes prefer to work flexibly - this can include around caring and other commitments, such as studies. When scoping a project, work hours will be discussed and agreed with our clients as some of our lawyers and paralegals work outside of the traditional 9 - 5 hours model.
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.
Committed to high standards
We are a B Corp Certified™ organisation with a clear social-impact mission.
Committed to fair living wages
We are committed to ensuring that everyone can earn a wage that meets their everyday needs.
Committed to women in law
Obelisk Support is the only 100% female-founded and managed legal services provider in the UK.
What we offer
In house lawyer
Our Interim Legal Support helps busy in-house legal teams avoid bottle necks caused by resourcing challenges and skills gaps.
Lawyer on demand
Whether your team is facing family leave, sickness, or just an increased workload, we’ve got you covered.
Fractional GC
Our experienced Fractional General Counsels, help C-Suite executives at scaling companies who want to accelerate growth in their business.
Our Legal Specialisms
Commercial & Contracts Lawyers
General Counsel
Corporate and M&A Lawyers
Employment Lawyers
Regulatory Compliance & Company Secretarial Lawyers
Data Privacy & Cyber Security
Intellectual Property Lawyers
Construction Lawyers
Finance Lawyers
Language Specialist Lawyers
Case study: The British Business Bank
The British Business Bank is a business development bank dedicated to making finance markets work better for smaller businesses. At the start of the pandemic, the Bank was tasked by the Treasury to support businesses by rolling out new loan programmes as quickly and efficiently as possible. In need of extra resources, Obelisk provided a finance lawyer with lending experience to be an extra pair of hands at a time of national emergency.
Meet some of our consultants
Rashda: Commercial Lawyer
Rashda has extensive experience in international legal practice gained across the UK, Europe and Australia, representing and advising clients in a broad range of contentious and non-contentious multi-party matters including joint venture and partnership disputes. ...
Jessica: Experienced Commercial Lawyer
Jessica is an experienced commercial lawyer and healthcare specialist, who has worked both as in-house counsel and in private practice.
Anna: Corporate Solicitor
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 various assignments ...