The Flex Legal blog

Discover what the future holds for General Counsel in our latest Flex Legal report. Based on insights from 180+ legal professionals, this free report explores the essential skills GCs need, from AI literacy to strategic leadership, to thrive in a fast-changing legal landscape.

In today's fast-paced legal landscape, matters are increasingly specialized, requiring precise combinations of domain expertise, language skills, and platform fluency—often at a moment's notice. The traditional model forces firms to choose between pulling senior partners off high-value strategy to cover execution, or saying "no" to winnable work, both of which erode profit margins and client trust. Flex Legal's new playbook introduces a strategic solution: a lawyer-managed, on-demand delivery layer that provides matter-ready specialists in approximately 24 hours. This variable capacity model allows firms to safely and compliantly plug rare expertise into live matters, ensuring that partners stay focused on judgement while execution is handled by the right grade of professional, ultimately enabling firms to "say yes" more often without breaking the leverage pyramid.

Discover what the future holds for General Counsel in our latest Flex Legal report. Based on insights from 180+ legal professionals, this free report explores the essential skills GCs need, from AI literacy to strategic leadership, to thrive in a fast-changing legal landscape.

The PCP car finance mis-selling scandal could surpass PPI, with potential claims reaching £30 billion. A recent Court of Appeal ruling found that undisclosed commissions were unlawful, impacting millions of drivers. Flex Legal can provide interim legal professionals to help firms manage the surge in claims.

In November 2022, Flex Legal embarked on a groundbreaking partnership with top-100 law firm Leigh Day. They came to us with an urgent large-scale request for interim northern paralegals... but why did they suddenly need so much extra support? And why did they decide to come to Flex?

Emerald Publishing is one of the world's leading digital-first publishers. Find out how we've provided them with both mid-level and senior interim commercial lawyers to support their in-house legal team and ease their workload.

Kraft Heinz is a widely recognised household name, and one of the world’s biggest food and beverage companies, so when they were introduced to Flex Legal in 2019, we were obviously delighted at the chance to work with them. Who wouldn’t be?

Flex Legal has been supporting Dentons LLP, the world’s largest law firm by headcount since 2018. We caught up with Ben, Denton’s resourcing manager, to learn why flexible resourcing is important and how the partnership with Flex Legal has worked.

Discover how AI is transforming legal teams in 2026. This playbook explores engineering value, safety, and talent in the age of automated law, addressing challenges from ethics and junior training to ROI and recruitment with innovative solutions.

Discover what the future holds for General Counsel in our latest Flex Legal report. Based on insights from 180+ legal professionals, this free report explores the essential skills GCs need, from AI literacy to strategic leadership, to thrive in a fast-changing legal landscape.

As diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts face growing resistance, Flex Legal remains committed to supporting social mobility in the legal profession. Through inclusive hiring, mentorship, and the Flex Trainee programme, we're helping to create equal opportunities for aspiring lawyers from underrepresented backgrounds. Discover how your legal team can get involved.

Freshfields is one of the world's' oldest firms, operating in over 150 countries worldwide. Flex Legal's Manchester Hub sits as a strategic part of their Client Delivery Group, and has made over 420 placements with the firm. We recently caught up with Diana and Yeelen, two Flex paralegals who have both worked at the firm. Here's what they had to say about the experience.

When the University of York's complaints team found themselves staring down an insurmountable backlog, they urgently needed support. Fortunately, Flex paralegals were drafted in and helped them meet their problems head on. Read how it all went down!

Flex Legal have worked with Aston University since February 2020. Find out how we've provided them with continued flexible paralegal resourcing, and helped them to fill a brand new remote lawyer role as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Flex Legal have had the absolute pleasure of working with Lenovo and providing them with a number of interim paralegals. Read this case study and learn what Sarah Rosser, Director and GC at Lenovo, thinks about Flex Legal's services.

Struggling with 'do more with less'? Discover how Agile GCs are engineering CFO-trusted savings by plugging budget leaks and transforming fixed costs into flexible capacity with Flex Legal's practical playbook.

Discover how UK law firms can improve lawyer utilisation, boost retention, and future-proof their resourcing strategies. Based on insights from over 90 legal professionals, this report from Flex Legal and The Lawyer explores the challenges of traditional models and offers practical solutions for sustainable legal team success.

Managing a multi-generational legal workforce is key to law firm success. Discover strategies to attract, retain, and support diverse legal talent.

In November 2022, Flex Legal embarked on a groundbreaking partnership with top-100 law firm, Leigh Day. We recently caught up with Eddy and Derin, two Flex paralegals who have both worked at Leigh Day, to delve into their experiences and gain an insight into how this collaboration has helped them on their legal journeys.

Melissa Kelly and Deborah Baxter founded TMFLC with the aim of doing things better. This people-first approach aligns strongly with our mission at Flex Legal. So, as you can expect, when Melissa and Deborah approached Flex in July 2021 looking for an interim paralegal, we were delighted to help.

Runnymede Law is a specialist law firm providing affordable dispute resolution and claims handling services to insurers and other clients. Read all about how we've responded to their quick turnarounds and helped to ease their busy workload.

We were introduced to RSG Consulting in 2017 when they were seeking paralegals to help them writing for the FT Innovative Lawyer Awards. Since then, we've provided them with a dozen talented paralegals, and they're immensely happy with us. Read more about this relationship here!