Legal services company expands

BIRMINGHAM-based Legal Clarity has expanded into new offices and has revealed plans to more than double the size of the business again following significant private investment.

The legal services company, which was established in 2007 by brothers James and Kevin Quinn, combines legal and IT expertise to provide fixed-cost legal services to accountants and entrepreneurs.

The company offers a range of online corporate and commercial legal services through its website www.legalclarity.co.uk – including a feature which allows entrepreneurs to form a company entirely online.

It also provides a legal agreement drafting service, together with company secretarial services.

The company has received help on growing its business from the Ignite programme through advisors at the University of Warwick Science Park. It has also obtained significant investment from the private sector.

Before establishing the company, James was a corporate solicitor and Kevin an IT programmer.

James said: “We will be investing heavily in our web-based IT and legal systems over the coming months, bringing innovation to the legal sector. We are also looking to double our staffing levels over the next year to ten.

“At this stage, we have a range of clients and our services are proving particularly popular with accountancy practices. Our expansion will help us to provide a growing range of legal services to businesses.”

Earlier this year, the firm moved from offices in Harborne to a new base in Newhall Street in the city centre. The advice it received through Ignite helped to guide it through the early stages of this process.

The company also took full advantage of the STEP project through the University of Warwick Science Park.

This saw a computer science masters’ graduate placed with the business for four months to work under the supervision of the technical director to develop a server activity monitoring system.

Dirk Schafer, of the University of Warwick Science Park, said: “The company has a unique offering and we are delighted to have been able to support their growth so far.

“It is great to see how James’s and Kevin’s expertise has come together to create this business, how it has expanded to this point and continues to do so.”