Benefits and Advantages
The benefits of working with World Link for Law members as an international legal association of independent law firms are:
- Experience/capability: Many firms are individually recommended for their work in international directories (e.g. Chambers and Partners; European and Asia Pacific ‘Legal 500’). Increasingly many are new firms comprising breakaways of young lawyers from larger firms.
- International coverage and representation: If we can’t fill a gap, our members can usually introduce other firms that they know or have worked with in the past.
- Generally broad based commercial law firms: On average 5/6 partners per firm with qualified staff covering a range of legal services.
- Local knowledge and management: All our members are local people often involved in local business associations and Chambers of Commerce
- Cost: Fees will generally be lower as smaller independent firms have lower overheads, no large central administration costs or sharing of profit issues.
- Size: Large enough to cope, small enough to care
- Relationships: Our members know each other; meet at conferences and meetings; and many are friends.
- Quality: Our Quality Code binds our firms and it concerns reporting, response times and communications and obligations about working together. There are strict selection procedures for new members – mainly based on recommendation of existing members; due diligence/visits to firms and various client references are taken.
- We are not a ‘multi-disciplinary’ professional services network, so there is no obligation for our members to refer non-legal work (and vice versa) to others in the same group, which means impartiality.
