Lawyers On Demand Ltd., the UK-based alternative legal services provider, is expanding beyond its lawyers-for-rent model and launching a law firm staffed exclusively by former in-house counsel who provide advice on contracts and other less-expansive legal projects.
LOD Legal is not a traditional partnership but it is branded as a law firm, taking advantage of changes made to the UK’s lawyer regulatory rules in November. Those rules allow individual attorneys to be licensed to provide basic corporate legal advice without being subject to the full regulations required of law firms.
The growth of LOD and comparable providers in the UK ...
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