“The Flex Legal platform was built from the ground-up with speed in mind. It's entirely unique, and enables us to respond faster than anyone else on the market.”
James Moore, Co-Founder and CTO
Why Flex Legal
Inspiring and enabling the legal workforce of the future
Flex On-Demand is a platform that rapidly connects you to lawyers and paralegals on an interim basis. Hiring via Flex is faster, more cost-effective, and more flexible than conventional recruitment. Our platform houses one of the UK’s largest databases of interim legal professionals, and we can have a candidate shortlist ready for you in 24 hours.
Flex Trainee helps us take our mission to make the legal industry more inclusive for all a step further. A scheme which has been created to support talented, aspiring lawyers from socially mobile backgrounds qualify in-house through the SQE route.
Awards and Rankings
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How we compare
Flex On-Demand vs Other Agencies/ALSP's
| Flex Legal | Other Recruitment Agencies | Other Alternative Legal Services Providers | |
| Select immediately available candidates from a shortlist of online profiles and videos | |||
| Industry-leading client dashboard - gain access to contracts, timesheets and data | |||
| Quality ensured through rigorous vetting and selection process | |||
| Diversity data available on secondees and workers | |||
| Managed by lawyers and legal industry experts | |||
| Outsourced legal work/managed service work | |||
| Mentoring, events and training for secondees/workers | |||
| Provide a free QWE Journal to organise and track work | |||
| Permanent recruitment support |
What we do
How Flex On-Demand can help you
Our award-winning online platform connects you to interim lawyers and paralegals. We are proud to already be trusted by FTSE250 companies and top law firms.
Hiring legal professionals on an interim basis is fast, cost-effective, and entirely custom-tailored to your needs. If your legal team’s workload unexpectedly ramps up, if you need to cover fixed periods of leave, or even if you want to find a perfect lawyer without the recruitment hassle - interim hiring is the best way to solve your problems quickly.
Flex Legal stays in touch with you once a placement begins, ensuring a high-touch approach, so that your interim hire is well managed. We’ll educate ourselves on the structure of your team, and make informed suggestions to ensure you get maximum value from your hire. If a placement isn’t working out, we’ll find an alternative candidate for you immediately.
We love being challenged with new requests, so get in touch!
Our talent pool
We already have the legal professionals you're looking for
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The Flex Legal platform is home to hundreds of lawyers and thousands of paralegals, covering the full spectrum of legal expertise and specialist knowledge areas. Our lawyers have experience ranging from NQ all the way to ex-GCs, and our paralegals range from law grads to several years of experience.
All of the legal professionals on our platform have been pre-screened with onboarding interviews, practical tests, and background checks. And each week, hundreds of applicants apply to join Flex Legal, with only a small number being successfully invited to join our platform.
Our assessment process can include the follow stages:
- CV and legal qualification check.
- Technical skills testing.
- Video and in-person interviews.
- Assessment Centres (Trainee only).
- SRA record and background checks.
- Client and project feedback loop.
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Our tech-powered platform
Tech, Testing and Vetting
We are incredibly proud of the bespoke technology that powers our industry-leading platform, created and continuously improved with our clients' and candidates' needs in mind.
This platform, developed by our very own Tech Team, helps us to deliver the most fast and efficient service possible.
why flex
Our commitment to diversity and social mobility
We love the legal industry. With that love comes a desire to see it improve and be more diverse, more inclusive, and more representative of the society it serves.This is why Flex Legal factors social mobility and a positive industry impact into everything we do.
Here are just some of the ways we are doing it:
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- Our platform is unbelievably diverse in terms of both social and academic backgrounds.
- We run social-mobility initiatives all year round, including various legal internships with organisations such as Diageo, Air BnB and the RS Group.
- Our QWE Journal is entirely FREE for any aspiring solicitors.
- Our award winning Flex Trainee scheme helps brilliant individuals from under-represented backgrounds achieve their Qualifying Work Experience with FTSE250 organisations and boutique law firms.
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