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Lawyers on Demand - 3rd February 2005
'Virtual law firm' Lawyers Direct has launched a new service to help law firms deal with short-term gaps in expertise.
New company CLD is the first organisation in the UK to offer consultant lawyers to law firms and legal departments for specific transactions with a minimum time commitment of just one hour.CLD's ex-City solicitors retain practising certificates, and specialise in non-contentious corporate and commercial matters. Managing Director James Knight says the company has been launched in response to market forces. He says: "Law firms lacking the expertise to complete client instructions must either turn those instructions away or bring in another law firms to undertaken certain elements of the work. "
"CLD enables a law firms to use consultant lawyers with experience in a wide variety of commercial fields including niche areas such as tax. The cost of that consultant lawyer can be billed directly to the client with a mark-up. "
"Similarly, if the legal department of a company needs additional support at very short notice it may prefer to use an appropriate consultant lawyer rather than instructing its regular law firm".
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