The legal support you need.
When you need it.
Create an extended legal team
Whether you’re facing a complex legal challenge, an overstretched team, or battling with commercial contracts, we can help by creating extended legal teams.
With a pool of pre-vetted lawyers, general counsels, paralegals and specialists in niche areas of law, you can assemble the team that suits your needs.
Why work with Obelisk?
- All our consultants, lawyers and paralegals are city-trained & pre-vetted.
- Our proprietary matching platform matches
you with the right legal professional. - We pioneer new ways of working to help our
clients succeed. - We are committed to creating a more inclusive legal profession.
Committed to high standards
We are a B Corp Certified™ organisation with a clear social-impact mission.
Committed to fair living wages
We are committed to ensuring that everyone can earn a wage that meets their everyday needs.
Committed to women in law
Obelisk Support is the only 100% female-founded and managed legal services provider in the UK.
What we offer
In house lawyer
Our Interim Legal Support helps busy in-house legal teams avoid bottle necks caused by resourcing challenges and skills gaps.
Lawyer on demand
Whether your team is facing family leave, sickness, or just an increased workload, we’ve got you covered.
Fractional GC
Our experienced Fractional General Counsels, help C-Suite executives at scaling companies who want to accelerate growth in their business.
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.
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.
How does insurance work?
Obelisk believes that the alternative legal services that we provide should offer the same peace of mind as a law firm, and so we hold comprehensive solicitors’ professional indemnity insurance to protect our clients. All of our legal professionals who do not hold their own policies are covered by this insurance. Full details of our insurance can be provided upon request.