Open Counsel - Services

Services

Legal advice that understands the shift to Open.

Open Counsel has worked with open businesses, open development initiatives, tech development communities and networks to:

Start new enterprises;
Make strategic use of open licenses and protocols, open data, open standards;
Create supportive legal environments for innovation through enabling licences, contracts, policies, employment policies and public documents;
Keep open standards open;
Advocacy for legal reform;
Research on open development;
Research on open technology transfer.

Open Counsel works with lawyers as a specialist consultancy.

Clients can expect us to:

use open to enable clients to innovate,faster and further
use virtual legal office technology to serve clients around the world
use plain language; you should be understand your own legal documents.
maximise resources; clients don't just pay for a service but can also add resources created to a pool of free legal resources.
focus on solutions; it is about problems solved, not billable hours.