New ABS opens up opportunities for Chartered Legal Executives

A new alternative business structure offering a unique platform for Chartered Legal Executives, solicitors, barristers and paralegals to offer legal services nationwide is gearing up for significant expansion.

Wildcat Law is the brainchild of Tahina Akther, an experienced barrister, and chartered wealth manager David Robinson, formerly capability director at Coutts. The aim is to offer a private office service for high-net-worth clients and what Ms Akther called “the mass affluent market”, along with contested probate, family, commercial and property law services.

While other platform law firms focus on recruiting senior solicitors with client followings, Wildcat Law is also keen to take on experienced Chartered Legal Executives as well as more junior lawyers of all stripes, offering them supervision, mentoring and the business development training they need to attract clients – as well as supporting them towards qualifications.

Ms Akther said: “Offering opportunities to talented lawyers, regardless of their qualification or level of experience, is a core founding principle of Wildcat Law. Too often, good people are overlooked in the legal profession.”

Depending on their area of law and level of experience, lawyers keep between 50% and 80% of their fees – typically it is 70%.