In November 2005, The Legal Desk started life as a firm of solicitors with a difference – a virtual law firm without a physical presence, either on the high street or in a big-city commercial centre. Instead, its ‘shop window’ is its website and its potential footfall anyone who accesses the worldwide web.

This is the 21st century, and the concept of online trading is far from unique. The unique selling point of The Legal Desk is that it provides a virtual in-house service. Its lawyers all have in-house backgrounds and, unhampered by the historic culture of a traditional law firm, carry that ethos with them in their service offering.