Extended legal teams.

Boost your team with a flexible pool of experts

Your legal team prides itself on providing a consistently high level of service. To maintain this consistency, there are times you need additional legal support – to cover peaks in work, a person’s absence or to work on a specific project. So, you can remain focused on the work that matters and maintain the well-being of your team.

Tap into a known pool of pre-vetted legal experts you can depend on, that understand your business, are a good cultural fit for your team, with the skills and experience you need, only when you need them – for a fixed price per month.

Tailor the skills and experience levels of your extended virtual team. Add or remove lawyers with different skills and experience as your business requirements change. Plus, save time and money as project management of your virtual team is included – from monitoring work levels and assignment completion to proactively managing holiday cover.

Our innovative offering means you can access exactly the level of support you need, from lawyers you know and trust, when you need it – ensuring your team’s effectiveness at a predictable cost.

Legal support since 2010

Our offer

An experienced team member, exactly when you need them

Pre-vetted, expert consultants

Predictable, tailored pricing

No long-term commitment

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

Committed to setting high standards

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We are a B Corp Certified™ organisation with a clear social-impact mission: to make legal work more inclusive.

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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 pre-vetted 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

Case study: Legal services designed for Farfetch

Farfetch is the leading global technology platform for the luxury fashion industry. It connects curators, creators and consumers around the world and offers an unrivalled range of products from over 1,000 luxury brands and retailers. Initially supported by just one Obelisk Support consultant covering general commercial matters, the remote team has now expanded to include consultants with financial services, corporate, banking and more diverse commercial expertise.

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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 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

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

What our clients say

“Working with Obelisk Support has helped us to reduce the cost of a core legal process by 70%.”

 

“I’d recommend Obelisk’s legal services to teams who are looking for new ways to get work done, without compromising on quality.”

 

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Working with our clients to streamline routine legal work

We do things differently

Championing making legal work more inclusive since 2010

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Misty: Paralegal and Governance Professional

Misty is a paralegal and governance professional, with extensive experience of supporting Legal and Secretarial functions in large corporates.

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Shushma: Paralegal

Shushma is a paralegal who has diverse experience spanning multiple sectors that is able to commercial savvy with solid legal expertise. Can you describe your experience of working through Obelisk? Working through Obelisk has been an empowering and rewarding journey...
Francesca

Francesca: Italian-qualified Finance Lawyer

Francesca is an Italian-qualified lawyer with considerable experience in capital markets. She spent 10 years with Allen & Overy before moving to working freelance with a range of clients.

Neil Visram

Neil: Commercial Lawyer

Neil has broad, cross-jurisdictional commercial experience within the travel, hospitality and leisure sectors. Most recently he acted as Legal Director for Carlson Wagonlit Travel’s Legal & Compliance Team and has previously held senior in-house legal positions at...

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

Extended legal teams FAQs

What is interim legal support?

Interim legal support provides businesses and law firms with access to experienced lawyers and paralegals on a temporary, freelance or project basis. Whether you need a lawyer for a special project, ad hoc legal support for hours, days or weeks, or to scale your legal function at speed as your business grows or to help on major transactions – we can meet your needs quickly while you stay in control of your costs. Interim legal support can be a cost-effective and flexible way for businesses to access the legal expertise they need - helping organisations to avoid the costs of hiring and training permanent lawyers while still being able to flex their resources to manage peaks and troughs, deal with unusual legal queries that cross their desk or manage large or small discrete projects at speed while remaining focused on the legal work that matters and strategic business initiatives, From secondment cover and support drafting and reviewing contracts, NDAs (non-disclosure agreements) and MSAs (Master Service Agreements) to help with compliance, governance reporting, IP, data privacy, M&A, post-acquisition legal support and more.

Is interim legal support the same as "smart legal law support"?

No, interim legal support and smart legal law support are not the same. Interim legal support provides businesses and law firms with access to experienced lawyers and paralegals on a temporary, freelance or project basis. Smart legal law support, on the other hand, is a type of legal service that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help process large amounts of legal data such as with contract management and document management. Interim legal support can be a cost-effective and flexible way for businesses to access the legal expertise they need through interim lawyers and paralegals brought in on a short-term basis to handle specific projects or to provide cover for permanent lawyers who are on leave. This can help businesses to avoid the costs of hiring and training permanent lawyers or paying more expensive legal fees to outsource the work to a traditional law firm.

Do you provide Major Transactions Support?

Yes. When you need extra expertise on a deal, our consultants can be an extension to your team. We also provide post-acquisition support and have helped several organisations scale at speed, enabling their general counsel to remain focused on delivering strategic impact, hiring and shaping the ideal legal function to meet aggressive commercial goals. Whether a dedicated lawyer or a mixed team of paralegals, senior legal consultants and specialist legal expertise as required - we can support you ensure that during and after major transaction activity you have the right, quality legal expertise you need.

When would you need an interim legal team?

When your business is growing, going through change, or your legal team, law firm or organisation needs to provide consistent service through peaks and troughs - an interim legal team on-demand is the answer. At Obelisk Support flexibility and ease are built into our service model. We can put together a team with the legal skills you need, available for an agreed number of hours each month that you can tap into as you need while keeping full control and transparency of your costs. Plus you benefit from dedicated account management and built-in project management; and our consultants have access to helpful resources including legal research tools and regular commercial updates to ensure smooth service delivery and the very highest quality legal support.

Do you have some interim legal team case studies?

Yes. Please do browse our case studies of how we have worked with organisations of all sizes.

Is Obelisk Support a law firm?

Obelisk Support is not a law firm, nor is it attached to a law firm and is not regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

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