Legal fee-finance platform LawyerClientConnect reports 850 fee earners signed up
LawyerClientConnect, an FCA-regulated credit broker offering finance for legal clients and fee earners, says around 850 fee earners are now represented on its platform six months after launch, and is preparing to launch a fee-advance product for lawyers.
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Growth claims
LawyerClientConnect, a legal finance platform operating as an FCA Appointed Representative and regulated credit broker, says approximately 850 legal fee earners are now represented on its platform, six months after launch.
The company says legal organisations - including law firms, barristers’ Chambers and specialist practices - are joining “on an almost weekly basis”, and that clients are applying daily for its Client Fee Finance product, which allows clients to spread the cost of legal work while lawyers are paid within days.
LawyerClientConnect says it is aware of “dozens” of clients who were able to start or continue legal matters because finance was available, though it has not published independently verified figures.
New product
The company is preparing to fully launch Interim Payments, a business-to-business product it says will let eligible legal professionals access up to 75% of billed fees within days, rather than waiting through normal payment cycles.
Founder and chief executive Conrad Blanchard said the platform was built to address payment timing issues at both ends of a legal matter - clients who need advice but cannot immediately afford it, and lawyers who have billed work but face delays being paid.
The platform, a trading name of Fee Release Limited, says it is designed for use by sole practitioners and individual barristers as well as firms and Chambers, and describes itself as modular, allowing legal practices to adopt only the products they want.