Sep 25 2012: Sheffield law firm first to sign up as partner for new Rocket Lawyer UK service
FAST growing and innovative Sheffield law firm Simpson Sissons & Brooke is becoming part of a pioneering new on line approach to legal assistance.
Rocket Lawyer, the Google Ventures backed online legal service, has launched the Rocket Lawyer On Call™ programme into the UK.
In the US, Rocket Lawyer has helped over 20 million individuals, families and small businesses create custom legal documents, guiding them through the process with step-by-step questions and providing access to partner law firms for help whenever required. Anyone using the service can create, save, sign and share documents with others, all online.
One of Rocket Lawyer’s first and founding British partners is Sheffield’s Simpson Sissons & Brooke Solicitors, who have joined Rocket Lawyer On Call™ to reach individuals and businesses looking online for legal services.
SSB partner Jeremy Brooke explained: “We are investing heavily in marketing and technology across the board. The partnership with Rocket Lawyer enforces this consumer commitment and creates a significant additional route to potential new customers for us. We anticipate that Rocket Lawyer will have an important impact on the UK market.”
He continued: “I firmly believe that we need to make legal advice easy to access, understandable and straightforward and let people know about it. That’s why there’s such a great synergy between us and why I believe Rocket Lawyer want to work with us as an On Call™ founding partner.”
“Rocket Lawyer has had great success already in the US, helping people to help themselves and directing them to a friendly lawyer when they need further help. And if you want to speak to a friendly lawyer in the UK, then speak to a Yorkshireman, like myself!
Founded in San Francisco, Rocket Lawyer is helping to transform the US legal industry and the prediction is that it will now do the same in the UK.
Rocket Lawyer has come to Britain under the guidance and management of Dr. Mark Edwards, as UK Corporate Vice President and General Manager. A network of solicitors is being selected over the coming months across England and Wales, made up of two to three law firms per region.
Mark Edwards, Corporate VP said: “Rocket Lawyer has a proven track record in attracting new customers online. By investing heavily into advertising and marketing, Rocket Lawyer will generate a steady stream of new business for law firms in the UK through our On Call™ programme. We are looking to work with progressive law firms who are set up to attract and work with customers online, so we are very pleased to have SSB join our On Call Lawyer programme. SSB are an innovative firm who are trying out new ways to engage with customers online, so they are just the sort of firm with whom we want to work.”
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