Robert Taylor, CEO and General Counsel
For hundreds of years, the legal profession in England & Wales has had a total monopoly on the provision of legal services to businesses and the public – a profession that was dominated by ever increasing fees and ever decreasing levels of service.
Robert Taylor, the CEO of 360 Law Group, qualified as a barrister in 1999. Recognising that the Legal Services Act 2007 had made significant changes to the way lawyers could operate, along with restrictions on the ownership of law firms being lifted, Robert, along with several experienced solicitors and barristers, set about creating a business model that could provide high quality legal services at a far lower cost, allowing firms from SMEs all the way up to large public and multinational organisations to have access to heavyweight legal services without breaking the bank.
Utilising a sophisicated and secure, custom built cloud infrastructure, the firm operates a distributed team of highly qualified lawyers, effectively eliminating premises costs and significantly reducing administration costs, allowing the firm to pass on genuine savings directly to its clients.
360 Law Group is the Umbrella Organisation for our Regulated and Unregulated Law Practices
Our global law firm, providing hourly rate; subscription and fixed project rate legal services to clients in over 100 Countries & Regions.
Our SRA Regulated Practice (number: 638684) providing business and private clients with legal services across all areas of law in England & Wales.
Global trademark search, registration, watch, dispute and portfolio management services from the intellectual property team at 360 Business Law.
Some of our valued clients
Our law firm covers over 80 countries and brings together more than 500 highly qualified lawyers
Lawyers
The Background to 360 Law Group
Robert set up 360 Business Law in 2014 as an unregulated practice using a distributed base of lawyers, operating via a virtual network through a secure IT infrastructure. The company grew rapidly, expanding first into the USA and Australia, and now utilising Solicitors, Barristers and Overseas Attorneys across the globe (70 countries), representing clients wherever they trade.
In 2016, the Directors applied to the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) for registration of 360 Law Services Ltd (SRA no. 638684) as an alternative business structure, allowing them to provide businesses and consumers with something that had not previously been available from a single group of companies – the ability to offer clients a choice in how they engage with lawyers: on a regulated basis or on a lower cost unregulated basis.
360 Law Group is the first, and currently the only firm in the UK who have fully taken advantage of the Legal Services Act 2007 to offer legal services on both a Regulated and an Unregulated basis – providing businesses, consumers and private clients with a real choice on how they instruct a lawyer and the fees they pay.
Clients can now take full advantage of the benefits that come with this choice, safe in the knowledge that the quality of advice provided will be of the same exceptional standard no matter how they choose to instruct the firm. Whether you are a business, a private client or a consumer, you can be sure that only highly qualified lawyers, each with at least 5 years’ post-qualifying experience in their area of specialisation, will work on your case. 360 Law Group is challenging the outmoded traditional law services model without compromising on quality and skill.
The Legal Profession Has Changed
The last decade has seen the start of transformation in the legal profession, with regulators simplifying their processes and removing barriers to market entry to make way for fresh players in the industry. 360 Law Group was one of the first law firms in the UK to take full advantage of the Legal Services Act 2007 (“The Act”). The Act set out only six restricted areas of law that must be practised by a regulated firm, the most significant being litigation – all other areas of law could be practised in an unregulated capacity. Regulatory reform also allowed law firms to harness innovative legal technology to increase efficiencies and drive down costs.
Not only did we choose to provide legal services on both a regulated and unregulated basis, but we developed a variety of innovative pricing models, including our market leading “Subscription Legal Services” where companies can obtain commercial contracts and/or employment law advice and services, in the UK and overseas for a single monthly fee.
This fee is usually less than they can employ a single lawyer at in the UK, and where fees do not increase for 12 months irrespective of increases in workload.
We are the only law firm in the UK to provide Subscription Legal Services on a global basis. Additionally, Subscription Legal Services Members can take advantage of our preferential “Member Rate” for all other business law services that they might require.
In all cases, we provide realistically low unregulated hourly rate fees; or capped regulated fees.
Our sophisticated, secure cloud-based infrastructure allows our lawyers to deliver legal services to anyone, anywhere on earth in an extremely cost effective manner, allowing us to provide you, our valued clients, with high quality legal services, provided by experienced lawyers, at a very realistic price.