Rocket Lawyer provides a combination of sample forms and lawyer referrals to triage and categorize the huge volume
of consumer legal services needs.
On the other end of the legal spectrum from Big Law, there is about a $ 40 billion latent market
for consumer legal services yet to be served by lawyers.
Sam Glover: Maybe to back it up even higher, maybe what the trend is, is that the balance of power is shifting back towards clients even
in consumer legal services like family law and small business transactions and IP because for a lot of reasons, right.
According to research published by the Legal Services Board (LSB) in November 2017 in Prices of
Individual Consumer Legal Services 2017 only 11 % of firms currently advertise any prices for conveyancing services on their website, and although 9 % were planning to start advertising prices, 74 % had no current plans to do so.
Shoosmiths has made its first hire for its
new consumer legal services brand, Access Legal, taking on personal injury partner Debra Woolfson from Pannone.
I'm going to speculate that at least part of the explanation for the general absence of a franchise model in
consumer legal services delivery is coming from the part of the equation we're always told to focus on, but often don't: the consumer.
In other words, it was adopting an alternative business structure (ABS) that has enabled us to expand our scale and become high quality providers of
other consumer legal services and to do so with affordable pricing arrangements.
Many consumer legal services shift from lawyers to non-lawyer providers; numerous solo and small law practices that can not adapt close their doors.
Next month's focus will be on market
for consumer legal services and why the billable hour needs to get put out to pasture there for us to reach this better future — stay tuned!
The use of technology and the Internet to address the inefficiencies in the small business and
consumer legal services market has been limited to date.
Avvo's legal business is booming, and with the recent launch of Avvo Ignite client conversion solution for attorneys, we've decided to focus 100 % of our attention on expanding
our consumer legal services and helping lawyers grow their business.
It certainly raises a big question mark over the «race to the bottom» approach to
consumer legal services.»
My response to the sender was that this is an exciting development in providing increased access to
the consumer legal services that many are going without.
The low end of the spectrum consists of very common,
consumer legal services.
New entrants, like Rocket Lawyer, Neota, Margaret Hagen and others are pushing the edges for
consumer legal services.
I hope to foster industry - wide dialogue about improving legal - service delivery, from legal aid and
consumer legal services to legal departments and law firms.