An online legal service revolution is launched
JOBURG – An innovative online legal platform which provides legal services has launched.
LexNove, which means new law in Latin, is a Johannesburg-based tech start-up, born out of the founders’ love for tech-entrepreneurship and a shared commitment to changing the way South Africans access quality legal services. The online platform has legal service providers who are able to offer corporate and commercial legal services to small and medium size enterprises.
Founders and Hurlingham residents, Kyle Torrington and Andrew Taylor realised that high-quality access to legal services was largely restricted to large corporates and wealthy individuals, and they wanted to change this. “Our vision is to dramatically transform the South African legal landscape by increasing access to, and the transparency of, quality legal services, whilst, simultaneously providing more certainty to the consumer as to their cost exposure, something never seen before in traditional legal environments” explained Torrington, LexNove’s CEO.
The company was launched last year, and Torrington believes that the concept is a revolutionary one, in Africa and possibly the world. “We’re making waves in an industry which hasn’t seen much disruption since it stopped using full head judicial wigs,” he added.
“Our unique approach moves away from several of the inefficiencies of the law environment like high-rise offices, huge overheads and hourly billing models, to deliver a world-first, value-based legal services platform which serves the needs of the customer.”
He said industry pundits have likened the system to a carefully crafted blend of Uber for lawyers and Match.com, allowing users to find the perfect service provider.
Torrington and Taylor are ex-practising attorneys who have recruited a world leader in IT Cloud solutions to blend deep industry knowledge with the smartest technology available.
Torrington explained that the LexNove platform allowed users to submit a description of their legal problem, receive a free early case assessment by qualified legal professionals who then guide the user through the creation of a project brief.
The project brief is then submitted to a panel of pre-vetted service providers who bid, at fixed prices, to assist the user in the resolution of their legal problem which is conducted safely and securely through their unique online system.
“All project funds are protected by bank-grade security in our third party escrow [deposit or fund held in trust] facility, giving users and service providers peace of mind and comfort in the knowledge that the funds are only released once the work has been done,” added Torrington.
Details: www.lexnove.co.za; info@lexnove.co.za
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