Demand for contract lawyers to be pushed up by market uncertainty

Pricing pressure and uncertainties over workflow are two of the main drivers behind the growing demand for freelance lawyers, according to the founder of a new online marketplace in Australia.
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Jarred Hardman, CEO of Crowd & Co, the new freelance lawyer employment platform, says that the legal industry worldwide will start to take part in something called the 'gig economy' - matching waves of work demand with a flexible supply of workers. 

Downward pressure

Mr Hardman says that law firms have not managed to stop the price pressures they face. He said: 'They've done a lot of restructuring of their cost base, but that downward pressure is still there. They need to find a better way of [responding].' Mr Hardman suggests that part of the response will be matching employee costs to the revenue they can generate, by hiring lawyers on a flexible basis. Source: Lawyers Weekly

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