Obelisk Flexible 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 scale your legal function at speed
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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Trusted service delivery
We’ll manage ongoing service delivery and project management
Focus on the legal work that matters, supported by a flexible legal support you can trust
You’re fire-fighting. Under pressure. How can you take a proactive stance, add value and ultimately play a key role in shaping your organisation’s success? Obelisk Support delivers flexible legal services, powered by a community of hundreds of highly-experienced legal professionals who no longer want to work full-time, all the time.
No matter your need, we can provide a skilled, experienced lawyer to boost your team. Our innovative approach to offering consultants means you can access exactly the level of support you need, nothing more. We can increase your team’s effectiveness when it matters at a predictable cost.
Each member of Obelisk’s pool of consultants has been selected for their skills and expertise. Collectively, we provide access to a team of mostly City-trained lawyers, with significant in-house expertise and a pool of paralegals you can trust. Because we take a #HumanFirst approach, you can be confident we will match the right lawyer from our team with the needs of your business – and the culture of your team.
Plus, Obelisk takes on all the administration – we carry out checks, match our consultants’ skills to the right projects and ensure they are equipped to do the job. We know your job is to add strategic value; let us give you the time to focus on the work that matters.
Benefit from
Tailored, flexible pricing to suit your budget
We handle all recruitment, onboarding, and admin
Dedicated account management
Develop your supplier diversity
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
“The beauty of Obelisk’s model is that you have access to high-quality lawyers and you don’t have to go through a complex set-up process or commit to huge volumes of work, which helps a team like ours to be more agile and responsive.”
“We need to make sure that we’re delivering results without incurring unnecessary costs, working with Obelisk means that we have a clear understanding of our legal spend for each transaction.”
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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
We do things differently
Championing making legal work more inclusive since 2010
Working with Kantar: providing flexible legal work at every level
For In-House Legal Teams FAQs
How does flexible legal support work for in-house teams?
Do you consider Obelisk Support a law firm?
What type of legal services do you provide to in-house legal teams?
Can I contact you about one-off projects and short-term cover?
Do Obelisk Support lawyers and paralegals only work remotely?
Does Obelisk Support offer flexible legal support outside London?
How experienced are the legal consultants at Obelisk Support?
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