Bloomberg Law
July 6, 2018, 11:06 AM UTC

Wake Up Call: “Uber for Lawyers” App to Take Legal Queries for $20

• Set to launch in September, the mobile platform “Text a Lawyer” will allow potential clients to ask lawyers an initial legal question for about $20, then $9 for follow-up questions. “I’m trying to bridge the gap between lawyers, at hundreds dollars an hour, that blue collar Americans cannot afford … with what they can afford,” says the app’s Portland, Oregon-based creator, Kevin Gillespie. ( Legaltech News )

• U.K. legal departments are lagging their U.S. counterparts in implementing legal tech innovations, according to an Acritas survey of over 2,000 senior in-house counsel. For example, it found that E-signatures are ...

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