Lawmee Pty Ltd

Name

Lawmee Pty Ltd

Legal name

Lawmee Pty Ltd

Website

https://lawmee.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Staffing Marketplace

akta.pro primary industry

Legal Practice Management & Case Management (BPAEAPAC)

Keywords

• Legal secondments marketplace
• Freelance lawyer platform
• Legal staffing marketplace
• Legal recruitment platform
• Flexible legal talent

Headquarters

HQ city

Perth

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Placement and Secondment Fees: Lawmee charges clients total daily/hourly rates that include lawyer/consultant fees plus Lawmee's insurance/admin costs and recruitment fees. Rates are passed through to lawyers with Lawmee taking a margin on the total. For permanent hires from secondment arrangements, a one-time conversion fee calculated at 25 times the daily rate is charged.
2. Professional Services - Payroll Administration: Lawmee handles payroll, PAYG tax, and superannuation for casual employees. Lawyers engaged as casual employees are paid through payroll with Lawmee taking responsibility for compliance obligations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Lawmee operates a tech-enabled online marketplace that connects pre-vetted freelance lawyers, paralegals, and company secretaries with Australian law firms and corporate legal teams for secondments and temporary engagements. Clients can browse candidate profiles, compare hourly and daily rates with transparent pricing, set up interviews, approve timesheets, and process payments entirely through an online dashboard, while Lawmee also handles payroll, PAYG tax, and superannuation where lawyers are engaged as casual employees.

Product overview

Lawmee is a tech-enabled legal secondments marketplace operating as a single unified platform. The core product is the Lawmee Platform, which connects pre-vetted lawyers and paralegals with companies and law firms through an online marketplace. Key modules include a Matching Algorithm that automatically pairs candidates with suitable roles, and a Client Dashboard for managing interviews, timesheets, and payments. The platform also offers the FY2027 Salary Guide & Legal Market Report as a supplementary resource. The platform is powered by KBE Legal Talent, a related legal recruitment firm, which provides the screening and recruitment expertise behind the service.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Lawmee Platform Tech-enabled online marketplace connecting pre-vetted freelance lawyers, paralegals, and company secretaries with Australian law firms and corporate legal teams for secondments and temporary engagements. Provides real-time candidate browsing, rate comparison, interview management, timesheet tracking, and payment processing. Targeted at law firms and companies needing flexible legal talent, and at lawyers/paralegals seeking freelance engagements.
• FY2027 Salary Guide & Legal Market Report Annual compensation report and legal market analysis publication covering salary trends, market insights, and hiring benchmarks for the Australian legal sector, jointly produced with KBE Legal Talent. Distributed as a lead-generation content offer via the Lawmee website.

Quantifiable outcome

• Save up to 70% on legal staffing costs compared to traditional recruitment
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers15 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• KBE Legal TalentcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLawmee is powered by KBE Legal Talent, a leading legal recruitment firm with 15+ years of experience connecting exceptional lawyers with leading law firms and in-house legal teams across Western Australia. KBE Legal Talent consultants are lawyers or have 15+ years of specialist recruitment experience, working as a stable cohesive team for 7+ years. The relationship involves shared leadership (Chris Bates is Founder/CEO of Lawmee and Director at KBE Legal Talent; Siemone Neutgens is Director at both entities), with KBE's established network and reputation supporting Lawmee's growth.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Lexoo: UK-based online marketplace connecting businesses with vetted lawyers for project-based and ongoing legal work. Comparable marketplace model to Lawmee, but focused on the UK market and a broader range of legal service delivery rather than purely secondments.
• Lawyers On Demand (LOD): Global legal talent marketplace placing lawyers on secondments with corporate clients and law firms. Same core business model as Lawmee (matching pre-vetted lawyers to flexible engagements), but operates at larger scale internationally and is owned by PwC.
• Axiom Law: Global legal talent marketplace offering on-demand lawyers, paralegals, and legal operations professionals to corporate legal departments. Same talent marketplace model as Lawmee, operating at much larger scale across multiple geographies.
• Elevate Services: Legal services platform providing flexible lawyer engagement, legal operations consulting, and technology-enabled legal support. Comparable to Lawmee in providing flexible legal resourcing, though with a broader legal tech and managed services component.
• FlexLegal: UK-based platform matching freelance lawyers with in-house legal teams and law firms for temporary and project-based work. Direct marketplace peer to Lawmee in the freelance legal staffing space, though geographically focused on the UK.
• Probe Legal: UK-based legal resourcing business specialising in interim, temporary, and permanent lawyer placements for law firms and in-house teams. Comparable to Lawmee's secondment and lawyer-staffing model, though with a more traditional recruiter-led approach.

Broad incumbents

• Peerpoint (Allen & Overy): Lawyer secondment platform from global law firm A&O Shearman, placing experienced lawyers on flexible engagements with corporate clients. Comparable secondment/matchmaking model to Lawmee, but anchored to a single global law firm's talent pool.

Emerging players

• Lawpath: Australian legal tech platform providing online legal documents, lawyer matching, and compliance tools for SMBs. Comparable as an Australian legal tech company using technology to disrupt traditional legal service delivery, though focused on SMB legal needs rather than freelance lawyer matching.
• LegalVision: Australian legal tech platform offering fixed-fee legal services to businesses via a tech-enabled model. Comparable as an Australian legal tech disruptor, though focused on direct service delivery rather than a lawyer marketplace.

Others

• KBE Legal Talent: Strategic partner powering Lawmee's platform, with 15+ years of legal recruitment experience in Western Australia. Shares leadership with Lawmee and provides the underlying recruiter expertise and talent pipeline; relevant as the upstream recruiter partner rather than a direct marketplace competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/lawmee

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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